The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health has decided that the Liberal bill, An Act Respecting Pandemic Prevention, needs revisions. The bill proposed giving power to the health minister to establish an advisory committee to review the government’s COVID management over two years and to prepare a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan in consultation with other ministers. However, the MPs rejected the internal review as self-serving for cabinet and endorsed only the preparedness plan. Members argued that an independent public inquiry was needed to establish where the government failed. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was formed in 2004 after the SARS outbreak in 2003. However, audits have found that PHAC was poorly prepared for COVID-19. Alberta Conservative MP Laila Goodridge called for an open, public inquiry into the government’s response to COVID-19.