Prorogation means planned new spending, like the $1.3 billion announced last month in the federal government's new border security plan, is in limbo.
raises questions about how Ottawa can respond to the incoming Trump administration without the option of using legislation — but the government says it still has several powers at its disposal.until March 24, and any bills that haven’t yet received royal assent die and will need to be reintroduced in the next session. That includes proposed new spending like the $1.
“Prorogation does not create a caretaker government,” Emmett Macfarlane, a political science professor at the University of Waterloo who studies constitutional politics, said in an interview.“The government has all of the regular authority it would have if Parliament were sitting to engage in administrative and executive actions.”
Agencies like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, and Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada can still undertake improvements to border security and refugee programs with existing funding, so long as any actions don’t require changing existing legal powers or authorities through new legislation.
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