Table 1.

Provincial legislation for emergency management: government powers to authorize or require physicians to work during a pandemic

Jurisdiction	Statute	Government powers	Liable for action under the act
British Columbia	Emergency Program Act	Authorize or require any person to render assistance of a type that the person is qualified to provide or that otherwise is or may be required to prevent, respond to or alleviate the effects of an emergency or disaster.	Bad faith or gross negligence
Alberta	Emergency Management Act	Authorize or require any qualified person to render aid of a type the person is qualified to provide. Authorize the conscription of persons needed to meet an emergency.	Gross negligence
Saskatchewan	Emergency Planning Act	Authorize any qualified person to render aid of a type that the person is qualified to provide. Conscript persons needed to meet an emergency.	Bad faith or gross negligence
Manitoba	Emergency Measures Act	Authorize or require any qualified person to render aid of such type as that person may be qualified to provide.	Bad faith or negligence
Ontario	Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act	Authorize, but not require, any person, or any person of a class of persons, to render services of a type that that person, or a person of that class, is reasonably qualified to provide.	Bad faith
Quebec	Civil Protection Act	Require the assistance of any person capable of assisting the personnel deployed.	Intentional or gross fault
New Brunswick	Emergency Measures Act	Authorize or require any person to render such aid as that person is competent to provide.	Only by order of Lieutenant-Governor in Council
Nova Scotia	Emergency Management Act	Authorize or require a qualified person to render aid of such type as that person may be qualified to provide.	No liability
Prince Edward Island	Emergency Measures Act	Authorize or require any qualified person to render assistance of such type as that person may be willing and qualified to perform.	Only by order of Lieutenant-Governor in Council
Newfoundland and Labrador	Emergency Services Act	Retain persons for the purpose of responding to the declared emergency whose training and qualifications appear to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, in consultation with the appropriate minister, to be adequate to perform medical, dental, nursing, pharmaceutical, optometrical [sic], engineering and other professional services.	Bad faith or gross negligence
Yukon Territory	Civil Emergency Measures Act	Minister may do all things considered advisable for the purpose of dealing with the emergency. May do those acts considered necessary for protecting the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the area.	No liability
Northwest Territories	Civil Emergency Measures Act	Authorize or require a qualified person to render aid of the type that the person is qualified to provide. Authorize the conscription of persons needed to meet an emergency.	No liability
Nunavut	Civil Emergency Measures Act	Authorize or require a qualified person to render aid of the type that the person is qualified to provide. Authorize the conscription of persons needed to meet an emergency.	No liability