Alberta Joins Saskatchewan in Preparing to End COVID-19 Restrictions
“Freedom Convoy” is inspiring truck convoys around the world, as the truckers in Ottawa settle in for a long haul.
We are now at the end of the first week of the Freedom Convoy rally, which appears to be part of the two weeks we needed to flatten the curve…of emergency COVID-19 restrictions.
Earlier this week, I noted that Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe set a target date in late February to end vaccine requirements for his province officially.
Now Alberta’s prime minister is preparing to end them as well.
Alberta will move toward lifting COVID-19 restrictions early next week, starting with the Restrictions Exemptions Program and measures involving children, Premier Jason Kenney said Thursday.
The COVID cabinet committee will also lay out a phased plan to remove almost all public health restrictions later this month as long as there is declining pressure on hospitals, Kenney said in an hour-long Facebook Live.
“After two years of this, we simply cannot continue to rely on the blunt instrument of damaging restrictions as that as a primary tool to cope with a disease that will likely be with us for the rest of our lives,” he said.
The premier did not give a specific day the program would be lifted, but committed that the province would repeal the Restrictions Exemptions Program “in the first quarter of 2022.”
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