Despite our weariness, the best path to getting future actions right is a federal inquiry
We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing.co-authored by a number of distinguished Canadian experts examining our national response to the COVID-19 pandemic and calling for a national inquiry – something many of us assumed would be well under way by now. And yet, there have been no other recent high-profile calls for a national inquiry that I can recall – no provincial medical associations, no national health care organizations, no political parties.
National commissions of inquiry are investigations called by the federal government, and their terms are laid out in the. Under that act, cabinet has the power to call for an inquiry whenever it likes. The cabinet can set the scope of the inquiry, and the act is broad enough to allow for very specific tailoring to the circumstance.
There is no single recipe for the format of an inquiry. It can be courtlike , or something else altogether. Ultimately, the inquiry issues recommendations. An example of the real-world impact of a previous inquiry was the creation of in the wake of one of Canada’s worst public-health disasters – the “tainted blood” scandal that resulted in thousands of cases of Hepatitis C and HIV in transfusion recipients.
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