Three UCP MLAs are furious with Premier Jason Kenney for failing to lift COVID-19 restrictions..UCP MLAs unofficially voted to remove the vaccine passport policy at a Monday caucus meeting, CBC reported..But Kenney said in a Tuesday news conference the time wasn’t right to scrap the passport plan..Some MLAs vented their anger in reply-alls to a caucus-wide e-mail on Wednesday..“How is it that the entire caucus agrees to a solution and it can be ignored?” said Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul MLA David Hanson Hanson, referring to the earlier caucus vote..To Hanson the path forward was clear..“Defuse the border confrontation and remove the (vaccine passport.”).Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock MLA Glenn Van Dijken went on to say the government owed Albertans an apology for “legally abus(ing) Albertans with bad policy.”.Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt followed suit, calling out the premier’s credibility..“Who is running this show? We are not the parents who cannot give into a child’s demands. We are the government that works for the people and we damn well should be doing what they want.”.Hanson, van Dijken, and Pitt were signatories to an April 2021 letter which pleaded with their colleagues to reopen the province amid stifling COVID-19 restrictions.. UCP MLA says government ‘legally abused Albertans with bad policy’ .The premier took to Twitter today to defend his inaction, assuring Albertans that “the end of COVID-restrictions is near.”.Amber Gosselin is a Western Standard reporter..agosselin@westernstandardonline.com.“
Three UCP MLAs are furious with Premier Jason Kenney for failing to lift COVID-19 restrictions..UCP MLAs unofficially voted to remove the vaccine passport policy at a Monday caucus meeting, CBC reported..But Kenney said in a Tuesday news conference the time wasn’t right to scrap the passport plan..Some MLAs vented their anger in reply-alls to a caucus-wide e-mail on Wednesday..“How is it that the entire caucus agrees to a solution and it can be ignored?” said Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul MLA David Hanson Hanson, referring to the earlier caucus vote..To Hanson the path forward was clear..“Defuse the border confrontation and remove the (vaccine passport.”).Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock MLA Glenn Van Dijken went on to say the government owed Albertans an apology for “legally abus(ing) Albertans with bad policy.”.Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt followed suit, calling out the premier’s credibility..“Who is running this show? We are not the parents who cannot give into a child’s demands. We are the government that works for the people and we damn well should be doing what they want.”.Hanson, van Dijken, and Pitt were signatories to an April 2021 letter which pleaded with their colleagues to reopen the province amid stifling COVID-19 restrictions.. UCP MLA says government ‘legally abused Albertans with bad policy’ .The premier took to Twitter today to defend his inaction, assuring Albertans that “the end of COVID-restrictions is near.”.Amber Gosselin is a Western Standard reporter..agosselin@westernstandardonline.com.“
