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Canada's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic : Réponse du Canada à la Pandémie de grippe H1N1 de 2009

23 Dec 2010

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Tuesday, September 28, 2010: The Honourable Senator Eggleton, P. C. moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Smith, P. C.: That notwithstanding the order of the Senate adopted on June 28, 2010, the date for the presentation of the final report by the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology on Canada's pandemic preparedness be ex [...] The PHAC’s Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control coordinated the development of this edition of the Plan in collaboration with its CEPR, with direction from the PIC.18 With the establishment of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network in 2005, PIC was subsumed within its working group structure, reporting to the Communicable Disease Control Expert Group.19 PIC continued to revise the [...] Federal, Provincial and Territorial Roles and Responsibilities under the Plan The roles and responsibilities of the PIC and the federal/provincial/territorial (F/P/T) Ministers of Health with respect to the Plan were detailed in a Working Agreement between Deputy Ministers of Health in March 2001. [...] Moreover, the extent to which the federal government may apply this power without the consent of the provinces remains uncertain and subject to the interpretation of the courts.36 Currently, there are two statutes that grant the federal government authority to prepare for and act in the context of a public health emergency: the Emergencies Act (EA) and the Emergency Management Act (EMA), both of w [...] Consequently, when the federal government did not receive sufficient information from the Government of Ontario, it was unable to inform the WHO of the actual degree of severity of the outbreak, resulting in the WHO imposing a travel advisory on the City of Toronto.50 As a result of these recommendations, Parliament passed legislation in 2006 establishing the PHAC and the role of the Chief Public
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