It hasn’t officially happened just yet, but with multiple news outlets reporting that Justin Trudeau may finally be ready to become the first prime minister to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with the rolling cross-country anti-vaccine mandate protests, here’s a quick overview of exactly how that might play out in the parliamentary arena.
For starters, a quick programming note: To keep this from turning into a novella-length treatise on the law itself, we’re going to skip over everything that happens before an emergency can be formally declared, other than to note that there is no requirement that the government get the go-ahead from Parliament before doing so — or, indeed, from provincial premiers if the effect of the order would “extend to more than one province.”
