It passed with the support of NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Green MPs. When negotiations failed to produce an agreement, the government put its proposal for the committee’s makeup to the House. Government House leader Mark Holland publicly stated that a Conservative should not be involved in the leadership of the committee since several Conservatives expressed support for protesters. The government and Official Opposition disagreed over whether a Conservative should co-chair the committee. A recorded vote was necessary because the Liberals and Conservatives couldn’t agree on how the committee should be constituted. The House of Commons formally agreed to the structure of the special joint committee of Parliament by a vote of 214 to 115. “We have to provide Canadians with the answers they deserve around the invocation of the Emergencies Act in order to move beyond this.”
“I think given what’s been endured across the country over the last two months, and what’s at stake in order for us to move forward, I can’t think of a more important moment through this entire pandemic to have all parties from the House and the Senate set aside hyper-partisanship and really allow for the seriousness of our work,” said NDP Matthew Green, who will co-chair the committee. The task of reviewing the Liberal government’s historic use of the Emergencies Act in response to anti-vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa and at border crossings got off to an inauspicious start this week.īut it’s also too early to abandon all hope that parliamentarians will be able to meet the occasion with the seriousness and transparency that the moment demands.
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