Wed Feb 16, 2022 – 2:36 pm ESTWed Feb 16, 2022 – 2:37 pm EST
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — Alberta’s capital city of Edmonton says it won’t create a local COVID vaccine passport after Premier Jason Kenney warned he would ban municipalities from enacting their own.
On Friday, in a 9-4 vote, Edmonton city councillors rejected a COVID pass, despite Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi saying he was “disappointed with how the provincial government lifted COVID restrictions too fast, too quick.”
Saying he was not happy with the province removing COVID mandates, Sohi, a former Liberal Member of Parliament admitted that a “local Edmonton-alone REP program just won’t work as much as we wish it would.”
On February 8, after mounting pressure from within his caucus along with the popularity of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy, Kenney announced an end to the province’s controversial restrictions exemption program (REP). He also said mandatory masking would be gone on March 1.
The REP allowed businesses such as restaurants, cinemas, bars, and recreational facilities to opt into a program that allowed them to operate without limits for jabbed people only. The vaccine-free in theory could only visit those businesses with proof of
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