Committee Reviewing Use of Emergencies Act Concerned About Translation Delays

Published on May 1, 2024

Members of the parliamentary committee studying the February 2022 use of the Emergencies Act are voicing concerns about how long their review is taking. The Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency met for over an hour on April 30, but much of the discussion from MPs and senators on the committee was on how to advance their work in a reasonable time. Part of the problem is the large number of documents received by the committee that haven’t been translated into French. Speaking through a French translator, Bloc MP Rheal Fortin said he was “quite disappointed” by the incomplete French translations and “the way we’re exercising bilingualism here,” suggesting “it’s okay to be bilingual, but if it’s going to cost us time or money, well, work it out.”...

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