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Alberta’s vaccine passports on the way out as UCP caucus hits boiling point
Calgary Herald via National Post [Canada] ^ | Feb. 3, 2022 | Don Braid

Posted on 02/04/2022 10:32:25 AM PST by canuck_conservative

[Premier Kenney] promised “a firm date to end the REP and do it in the very near future.”

That still won’t please the large and impatient anti-passport crew in his caucus. They’ve reached peak anger over the program and want it to vanish immediately, especially with more demonstrations and blockades threatening over the weekend....

During an earlier virtual caucus meeting on Monday, MLAs were asked if they agreed with ending the passport requirement at once.

Not one person disagreed, according to people who were on the meeting. I won’t name sources because revealing details of caucus meetings is grounds for an MLA to be thrown out.

Some UCP members weren’t on the call and ministers were keeping quiet. Only the MLAs from north of Red Deer actually voted.

But since everybody had a chance to speak against the question, and nobody did, people who participated took it as a powerful endorsement of the call for instant abolition....

A three-tier system based on the type of bill was described, but MLAs took it as a sign that Kenney’s long-standing promise of free debates is over.

Hanson says: “I’m not going to let somebody’s rules stop me from doing my job. I’ll just speak out. It doesn’t always win points with the boss but at least I can sleep at night.”...

[kenney] has already publicly moved his target from the end of March, to somewhat earlier, to very soon. Few people will believe that he isn’t already pushed by internal divisions and external protests.

Now, Kenney is obviously pressured even more by truckers’ protests and blockades....

But the vaccine passport system is as good as dead already. Only the burial remains.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alberta; canada; covidpassport; freedomconvoy; protests
Even Alberta starting to ease up, most now recognize the Covid restrictions do nothing
1 posted on 02/04/2022 10:32:25 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative


Trucks were coming and going at the Coutts border crossing on Thursday, February 3, 2022. (PHOTO BY DARREN MAKOWICHUK/POSTMEDIA)="">


2 posted on 02/04/2022 10:33:18 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Two Years and several Trillion Dollars Short.


3 posted on 02/04/2022 10:34:07 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: canuck_conservative

Moved his target from March to somewhat sooner.

How about this afternoon.


4 posted on 02/04/2022 10:35:21 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

The fakservative premier in Alberta has his finger in the wind and is hedging his bets.

Meanwhile a crackdown seems imminent in Ottawa on the truckers protest...

https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2022/02/breaking-news-ottawas-top-cop-intends.html


5 posted on 02/04/2022 10:39:42 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: canuck_conservative

Where does Alberta rank, ordering provinces from most commie to least?


6 posted on 02/04/2022 10:41:40 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: canuck_conservative

We need to do the same thing here but we are not as unified as Canadians.


7 posted on 02/04/2022 10:43:02 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: canuck_conservative

Step by step free men are winning.


8 posted on 02/04/2022 10:47:56 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: canuck_conservative

I think Israel, the most vaxxed country in the world, has already scrapped this idiotic passport program. It obviously doesn’t work. I’ve been arguing that all this passport does spread the virus among the vaccinated. The vaccinated are the super spreaders. They have a false sense of security. They gather in crowded spaces. They don’t social distance. While the unjabbed, who are not allowed into society at large in most major cities, are kept out but pose no greater risk to the vaccinated than anybody else. At worst, they pose a risk to themselves and themselves alone assuming the vaccines are perfectly safe. They have made up their minds, no point in coercion when we now know with certainty that the jabs don’t stop the spread.


9 posted on 02/04/2022 10:49:33 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BiglyCommentary

The way that I look at it, look at the state underneath the province.


10 posted on 02/04/2022 10:51:36 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: BiglyCommentary

Next to Saskatchewan the second least IMHO.


11 posted on 02/04/2022 11:04:17 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: canuck_conservative

PROMISES.....PROMISES....

UNTIL IT IS SIGNED INTO LAW IT IS ONLY HOT AIR.


12 posted on 02/04/2022 11:10:09 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: canuck_conservative

That’s Milk River, not Coutts.


13 posted on 02/04/2022 11:12:39 AM PST by sissyjane
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To: canuck_conservative

Why does it take days, months, years to FREE the People? Because the Swamp where ever they may be will Pray to their Devil that the populace will forget or be worn out!!!


14 posted on 02/04/2022 11:28:11 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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"Meanwhile a crackdown seems imminent in Ottawa on the truckers protest..."

If they crack down on the truck or protest be prepared for truckers in Canada to have a massive sickout. Ottawans will be eating dirt.

15 posted on 02/04/2022 11:34:50 AM PST by WMarshal ("No war for communism")
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Why accept later? Shut it down and dismantle immediately. Nothing less should be acceptable, unless they want to experience life without a viable economy.

The Truckers should operate on a single principle; “if you aim at the King, you had better kill him.“

No mercy here, they will show you none in he future regardless.

16 posted on 02/04/2022 12:58:28 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: canuck_conservative

“At some undetermined time in the future we will announce a firm date to lift the vaccine passports.”

Dear Premier, why not lift them now?


17 posted on 02/04/2022 12:59:24 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: canuck_conservative

So, they’re trying to kick the can down the road, ‘soon’, but not today. Figuring that it may be enough to fracture the group, and perhaps even break them. And then, things just continue along. It’s such an obvious move by the authoritarians.


18 posted on 02/04/2022 1:18:13 PM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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