My reading of the Emergencies Act is that it was designed, of course, in the mid-eighties, after the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When I read the debates that surrounded the creation of the Emergencies Act, two things seem to have been present in the minds of parliamentarians at that time. One was the fact that the War Measures Act, when it was invoked in 1970, was explicitly not subject to the Canadian Bill of Rights or any charter. Second of all, it didn't require any parliamentary oversight. It gave unlimited powers to the cabinet to do whatever they wanted, and for any time period as well.
Are there provisions in the Emergencies Act that deal with giving parliamentary oversight, time-limiting the powers, and subjecting the Emergencies Act to the overriding superiority of the charter?