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VULNERABLE142 Résumé Tenir les pouvoirs exécutif et législatif responsables en situation de pandémie Il s’agit d’un défi continu d’exiger que les pouvoirs exécutif et législa- tif soient tenus responsables de leurs décisions en situation d’urgence. La COVID-19 a posé de sérieux problèmes en matière de reddition de comptes. La situation actuelle soulève des questions sur la manière de garantir que les pouvoirs exécutif et législatif sont tenus responsables dans le contexte d’une crise de santé publique comme celle dans laquelle la COVID-19 nous a plongés. J’explore certaines de ces ques- tions dans ce chapitre. Ce faisant, je tente d’évaluer de manière juste les défis auxquels ces pouvoirs sont confrontés lors d’une telle crise, et je suggère des moyens pour trouver des axes de responsabilité, tant au sein des pouvoirs politiques qu’ailleurs, lorsque les circonstances sont exceptionnelles. Holding the executive and the legislature to account is a peren-nial challenge in an emergency.1 The executive typically has a significant margin to respond to an unfolding crisis using authority already granted to it by the legislature.2 Where additional author- ity (especially authority to spend) is required, the usual processes of pre-legislative and legislative scrutiny may be compressed or simply scuttled.3 Bills are drafted hastily, reviewed by legislators quickly or not all, and enacted.4 It then falls to the courts, and possibly keen 1. On the various meanings of accountability in a parliamentary system, see Carol Harlow, “Accountability and Constitutional Law” in Mark Bovens, Robert E Goodin & Thomas Schillemans, eds, The  Oxford  Handbook  of  Public  Accountability  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) 195. 2. I am grateful to Charlie Feldman for pointing this out to me. 3. On the “usual” processes, see Gabrielle Appleby, “An excellent @auspublaw- blog post by Andrew Edgar explaining how Cth & NSW have implemented emergency public health measures. An important call-out for public lawyers to scrutinise these measures as ordinary accountability mechanisms don’t apply. https://auspublaw.org/2020/03/law-making-in-a-crisis-commonwealth-and- nsw-coronavirus-regulations/” (29 March 2020 at 20:26), online:  Twitter  <twitter. com/Gabrielle_J_A/status/1244420785462063105>. 4. See generally Stephen Gardbaum, “Comparative Political Process Theory” [2020] Intl J Constitutional L [forthcoming in 2020], online: SSRN <papers.ssrn. com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3596328>; Thomas Kaplan, “Congressional Leaders Agree on $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill as Deadline Looms”, The New York
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VULNERABLE The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
Title
VULNERABLE
Subtitle
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
Authors
Vanessa MacDonnell
Jane Philpott
Sophie Thériault
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Publisher
Ottawa Press
Date
2020
Language
English
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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN
9780776636429
Size
15.2 x 22.8 cm
Pages
648
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