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Anonymous ID: df97b3 March 17, 2020, 3:17 p.m. No.8454212   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4303

Trudeau talking about Emergencies act

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that the federal government is considering invoking the Emergencies Act to help keep the Canadian economy afloat as the novel coronavirus spreads throughout the country.

 

Speaking from Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Trudeau said he has asked House Leader Pablo Rodriguez to speak with his provincial counterparts to recall the House of Commons to bring in “emergency measures.”

 

Trudeau said little about what those measures would specifically entail, but when asked what enacting emergency measures would do that differed from current protocol, he said the government was examining the act “to see if it will allow us to do more things that can’t be done otherwise.”…

https://globalnews.ca/news/6690293/coronavirus-emergencies-act-canada/

Back Ground:

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html#h-213849

 

Orders and regulations

 

8 (1) While a declaration of a public welfare emergency is in effect, the Governor in Council may make such orders or regulations with respect to the following matters as the Governor in Council believes, on reasonable grounds, are necessary for dealing with the emergency:

 

(a) the regulation or prohibition of travel to, from or within any specified area, where necessary for the protection of the health or safety of individuals;

 

(b) the evacuation of persons and the removal of personal property from any specified area and the making of arrangements for the adequate care and protection of the persons and property;

 

(c) the requisition, use or disposition of property;

 

(d) the authorization of or direction to any person, or any person of a class of persons, to render essential services of a type that that person, or a person of that class, is competent to provide and the provision of reasonable compensation in respect of services so rendered;

 

(e) the regulation of the distribution and availability of essential goods, services and resources;

 

(f) the authorization and making of emergency payments;

 

(g) the establishment of emergency shelters and hospitals;

 

(h) the assessment of damage to any works or undertakings and the repair, replacement or restoration thereof;

 

(i) the assessment of damage to the environment and the elimination or alleviation of the damage; and

 

(j) the imposition

 

(i) on summary conviction, of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six months or both that fine and imprisonment, or

 

(ii) on indictment, of a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding five years or both that fine and imprisonment,

 

for contravention of any order or regulation made under this section.