Commentary
The people who created the Emergencies Act understood just how serious the invocation of that act could be. It is an act to be used only in the direst of circumstances when all other means of maintaining public order have been exhausted. The suspension of civil liberties can never be taken lightly or done frivolously. That is why a clause was built into the act calling for a full inquiry into its use that must be done within 60 days of its invocation.
