Mon Mar 28, 2022 – 8:58 pm EDT
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said federal COVID jab mandates for travel are “pointless” and must be ended immediately.
“As far as I know, Canada is the only major country in the world with a policy like that (vaccine mandate for travel), which has no defensible public health rationale. It’s political theater, not public health policy,” Kenney said in a Twitter video posted last Thursday.
“So we are renewing our call as a legislature, as a government, on the federal Liberals to drop the vaccination requirement for people to board a flight. People who are vaccinated can very easily transmit the omicron variant of COVID-19. And so, this is no longer a distinction that serves any defensible purpose.”
Kenney blasted the Alberta NDP Party, which is the official opposition in the province, for standing “in alliance with the Trudeau Liberals” in voting against a recent motion brought forward by the governing United Conservative Party (UCP) calling for an end to mandates.
For months, Kenney implemented a vaccine passport within this own province, which in effect barred the vaccine-free from many public and private places. Alberta was the
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