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Pandemic Parliaments: Canadian Legislatures in a Time of Crisis
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Rayment E
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Can J Polit Sci
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Canadian legislatures? responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have raised questions
about whether and how parliaments should continue to meet during the pandemic
(Reid, 2020; Thomas, 2020a). The purpose of this research note is twofold: (1) to
document how Canadian legislatures have changed in response to the COVID-19
pandemic and (2) to assess the effect of these responses on legislatures? ability
to fulfill their core functions. Through an analysis of parliamentary records
from all elected federal, provincial and territorial legislatures in Canada, we
find that the role of parliaments as sites of citizen representation has suffered
the most, whereas the scrutinizing and legislative functions of parliaments have
tended to be preserved, albeit in a significantly truncated form. We argue that
patterns in legislatures' varied responses to the pandemic reveal which aspects
of parliamentary functioning these bodies de facto prioritize and which are at
risk of being eroded.