Jason Kenney, Premier of Alberta, Canada, has announced that several COVID-19 restrictions, including the COVID-19 vaccine passport which mandated proof of vaccine for entry into various businesses, will end at 11:59 p.m. local time Tuesday night.  This is the first in a three-step plan to eliminate the majority of COVID-19 rules by the end of February and comes after weeks of massive protests throughout Canada against the government&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID,” Kenney <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/02/08/alberta-to-ends-its-vaccine-passport-system-begin-loosening-restrictions-for-children.html">said</a>. “These restrictions have led to terrible division.”
“We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal.&#8221;
Earlier on Tuesday, Kenney pledged to &#8220;fight&#8221; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s vaccine mandate for Canadian truckers.
&#8220;If the Canada-USA trucker vaccine mandate wasn&#8217;t bad enough, now Justin Trudeau wants to bring in a mandate for truckers going between provinces,&#8221; Kenney tweeted.
&#8220;Alberta will fight this every step of the way &#8211; including in court, if we have to,&#8221; he declared.
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If the Canada-USA trucker vaccine mandate wasn&#39;t bad enough, now Justin Trudeau wants to bring in a mandate for truckers going between provinces.
Alberta will fight this every step of the way &#8211; including in court, if we have to.
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&mdash; Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@jkenney) <a href="https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1491112177192763394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
Truckers, following in the footsteps of the Ottawa &#8216;Freedom Convoy,&#8217; have been blockading the U.S-Canadian border, demanding that the Canadian government drop all forms of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.
Kenney alluded to those protests and other Canadians upset with the restrictions as part of his nighttime address Tuesday night, <a href="https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-ditches-proof-of-vaccine-program-at-midnight-masking-for-students-monday-1.5772684">according</a> to Edmonton CTV News:
<blockquote>The premier also talked about how pandemic rules have &#8220;inflamed&#8221; disputes amongst Albertans and &#8220;disrupted and even destroyed livelihoods.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll never be able to do a full accounting of the extent of the pain and hardship that restrictions have caused,&#8221; Kenney said.
The premier added that many countries, states, and provinces are also removing restrictions as Omicron case numbers fade.
&#8220;We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal, and so Alberta will move on. But we&#8217;ll do so carefully, we&#8217;ll do so prudently, we will do so only if it does not threaten the capacity of our healthcare system,&#8221; Kenney said.</blockquote>
Prior to the announcement, political opponents accused Kenney of placating &#8220;criminals,&#8221; in <a href="https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-ditches-proof-of-vaccine-program-at-midnight-masking-for-students-monday-1.5772684">reference to the truckers</a> leading the protests, CTV News noted:
<blockquote>“The sight of an elected government being bent to the will of criminals should be of grave concern to everyone regardless of their political beliefs,&#8221; NDP Leaders Rachel Notley said Monday.</blockquote>
While Kenney no longer supports the government mandating that businesses require proof of COVID-19 vaccine for customers, the Alberta premiere did say that he would support a businesses&#8217; right to choose if they wanted to have a vaccine passport of their own. Kenney cited the &#8220;free market&#8221; as part of his reasoning, but also added that he hoped Canada could move away from &#8220;all&#8221; pandemic measures.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-will-live-to-regret-this-jordan-peterson-blasts-ottawa-mayor-maligning-truckers-convoy">‘You Will Live To Regret This’: Jordan Peterson Blasts Ottawa Mayor Maligning Truckers’ Convoy</a></blockquote>
This is a developing news story; check back for updates.

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