Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act

An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness

Sponsor

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Report stage (House), as of March 19, 2024

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Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment enacts the Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act to require the Minister of Health to establish an advisory committee to review the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada in order to reduce the risks associated with future pandemics and inform a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan.
It also requires the Minister of Health to establish, in consultation with other ministers, a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan, which is to include information provided by those ministers.
Finally, it amends the Department of Health Act to provide that the Minister of Health must appoint a national pandemic prevention and preparedness coordinator from among the officials of the Public Health Agency of Canada to coordinate the activities under the Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act .

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Votes

Feb. 8, 2023 Passed 2nd reading of Bill C-293, An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness

Health Committee, on April 20, 2023

    Health Committee, on Oct. 18, 2023

    • Lisa Barrett, Physician-Researcher, As an Individual
    • Patrick Taillon, Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies, Faculty of Law, Université Laval, As an Individual
    • Melissa Matlow, Campaign Director, World Animal Protection
    • Kathleen Ross, President, Canadian Medical Association
    • Michèle Hamers, Wildlife Campaign Manager, World Animal Protection

    Health Committee, on Oct. 23, 2023

    Health Committee, on Oct. 25, 2023