Yukon’s legislature enacting legislation allowing executive to declare state of emergency in response to peacetime disasters, and to exercise emergency powers, without oversight by legislature — Executive declaring state of emergency during COVID-19 pandemic and imposing emergency measures, including restrictions on travel and borders — Whether emergency measures legislation unconstitutional — Whether Canada’s Constitution imposes limits on ability of legislature to create and delegate emergency powers to executive — When does a change to a core function of the legislature give rise to a change to the constitutional architecture? — dismissed 04/02/2026 — Supreme Advocacy acted as agent for the Respondent.
Read the lower court decision from the YKCA here.