A private member’s bill that calls for the federal government to appoint a committee to self-review its own pandemic response, was sent to second reading on Feb. 8 by a House of Commons vote.
The majority of Liberal, NDP, and Green MPs voted for the bill, while most Conservative and Bloc MPs voted against it, for a final count of 176 to 142.
When Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith proposed Bill C-293 last summer, he said it would require the federal health minister to establish an advisory committee “to prevent the risk of, and prepare for, future pandemics and to promote transparency and accountability toward that goal.”…