OTTAWA — The federal government is open to possible changes to the Emergencies Act but says it first wants to consult widely on the law it invoked to quell "Freedom Convoy" protests two years ago. In a final response Wednesday to a commission of inquiry, the Liberal...
Clerk of the privy council Janice Charette told the Emergencies Act Inquiry on Friday that her department considered that Freedom Convoy protests across the country constituted a national security threat, despite the fact the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) never found one. A...
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One would think that an unprecedented event with such widespread impacts would have been followed by an official public inquiry of some kind to determine what went right, what went wrong and what lessons could be learned to better prepare the country to deal with future public emergencies. But ...
Standing waivers and continued flexibility: State CACFP directors reported the need for standing waivers to implement during emergencies and continued flexibility to implement the meal pattern and monitoring waivers Flexibility to transition between normal and emergency regulations moving forward I have learned...
We need to act quickly as the instability caused by the pandemic has increased the constraints on the government's own financial capacity, which has been aggravated by the continued fragmentation between the national and subnational spheres that is leading to the erosion of responsiveness. The idea...