Globe editorial: If COVID-19 didn’t clear the bar for the Emergencies Act, does this?

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If COVID-19 didn’t clear the bar for the Emergencies Act, does this?

It is hard to overstate the impact that COVID-19 has had on Canada. An unprecedented recession. Hundreds of billions of dollars of economic activity evaporated; millions of jobs temporarily lost. Nearly 36,000 Canadians have died; tens of thousands ended up in hospital. The health care system was at times overwhelmed.

It was the right choice – and that does not in any way diminish the gravity of COVID-19. Nor does it mean Ottawa and the provinces got everything right in dealing with it. It’s just that it’s hard to see what the Emergencies Act, and its arrogation of additional powers to the feds, would have done to fix what defects of pandemic policy there were.

By Thursday, when the Trudeau government finally allowed Parliament to begin several days of debate on the Emergencies Act, the erstwhile national emergency appeared considerably less national, and less emergency-ish, than a week earlier.

 

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Look they have had 21 long days now 22 in fact. Everyone has let these kids play, now they have taken advantage of a good thing. Bring on the Emerg Act. There are those who continue to work and a bouncy castle is the last thing they need to hear about much less a hot tub.

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How about this? Does this 'clear the bar?' Or does it violate your narrative to even mention it?

They came to overthrow our government. Could Covid do that?

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