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Canada’s coronavirus-related restrictions are out of control.
After sparking widespread protests, including a massive “Freedom Convoy” of truckers, the Premier of Alberta, Canada announced that they are removing a number of COVID-19 restrictions.
Most importantly, the region is dropping the COVID-19 vaccine passport requirement. This requirement forced people to carry around papers showing that they had proof of vaccine to enter various businesses.
“Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID,” Kenney said. “These restrictions have led to terrible division.”
“We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal.”
If the Canada-USA trucker vaccine mandate wasn't bad enough, now Justin Trudeau wants to bring in a mandate for truckers going between provinces.
Alberta will fight this every step of the way – including in court, if we have to.
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— Jason Kenney (@jkenney) February 8, 2022
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Earlier on Tuesday, Kenney pledged to “fight” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vaccine mandate for Canadian truckers.
“If the Canada-USA trucker vaccine mandate wasn’t bad enough, now Justin Trudeau wants to bring in a mandate for truckers going between provinces,” Kenney tweeted.
“Alberta will fight this every step of the way – including in court, if we have to,” he declared.
Truckers, following in the footsteps of the Ottawa ‘Freedom Convoy,’ have been blockading the U.S-Canadian border, demanding that the Canadian government drop all forms of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.
Kenney alluded to those protests and other Canadians upset with the restrictions as part of his nighttime address Tuesday night, according to Edmonton CTV News:
The premier also talked about how pandemic rules have “inflamed” disputes amongst Albertans and “disrupted and even destroyed livelihoods.”
“We’ll never be able to do a full accounting of the extent of the pain and hardship that restrictions have caused,” Kenney said.
The premier added that many countries, states, and provinces are also removing restrictions as Omicron case numbers fade.
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“We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal, and so Alberta will move on. But we’ll do so carefully, we’ll do so prudently, we will do so only if it does not threaten the capacity of our healthcare system,” Kenney said.
