Mayors of Edmonton and surrounding communities call for Premier Kenney to implement COVID-19 vaccine passport for Alberta
Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson is one of 12 Alberta mayors calling on Premier Jason Kenney to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine passport.Twelve Alberta mayors are calling for Premier Jason Kenney to bring in provincewide COVID-19 vaccine passport rules, while a member of his United Conservative caucus is telling him to back away from them entirely.
“I think that a passport mechanism provides a much more strong and relevant incentive than $100 payments to people who have held out so far.” The mayors were responding to new measures announced by Kenney Friday to curb a resurgence of nation-leading COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations that are now threatening to overwhelm the health system. Patients are being transferred and non-elective surgeries are being cancelled across the province to deal with the influx that filled intensive care to 95 per cent capacity late last week.
School boards are also being left to decide their own plans on masking, resulting in a patchwork of rules across the province as students return to class this week.The mayors called for better leadership from Kenney’s government, and consistency in the rules.“Failure to extend masking requirements to schools and postsecondary institutions further perpetuates division between Albertans creates more uncertainty for students, staff, and faculty,” wrote the mayors.
But UCP caucus member Peter Guthrie is publicly calling out the QR code plan, warning it could be the first step to a provincewide passport that would be unfair to those who choose not to get vaccinated.
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