Alberta Premier Jason Kenney lost his job in large part due to party displeasure over COVID-19 measures, and those same grievances are defining the UCP leadership race to replace him
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney begged UCP members not to relitigate COVID-19 when he was fighting for his job this spring. Many of those pushing for his removal cited lockdowns, vaccine passports and other public-health measures as the main failures of his government.
For example, Ms. Smith has raised the prospect of the federal government forcing schoolchildren to be vaccinated as she pitched the sovereignty act, which she said would allow the province to ignore federal laws it deems unconstitutional. Yet vaccines and vaccine mandates have played an outsized role in the race. Ms. Smith pledged to amend Alberta’s Human Rights Act to ban what she called discrimination based on medical decisions, a reference to vaccine mandates, if she won the race.
“There’s very little evidence that anyone under the age of 35 really needs to have the shots at all,” she said. “If you’re over 70, probably you should get whatever is recommended by the medical professionals, including boosters.”
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