A government health committee has agreed that the Liberal government cannot review its own response to COVID-19.
MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health decided at their April 20 meeting that Liberal bill C-293, An Act Respecting Pandemic Prevention, needs to be revised.
The bill would give the health minister power to “establish an advisory committee” to review the government’s COVID management over a two-year period. It would also require the minister to establish, “in consultation with other ministers, a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan.”
Blacklock’s Reporter reported that MPs on the committee endorsed the drafting of a preparedness plan but rejected the internal review as self-serving for cabinet….