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Kenney has always said he didn’t want severe restrictions over Christmas.
But that’s what Alberta now has. The only thing separating us from a genuine lockdown is continued operation of general retail at 15 per cent capacity.
The question for the premier is whether the government could have avoided this if he’d followed the advice of the worried doctors and closed up tight in November.
“No, no, absolutely not,” Kenney says.
“I’ve scoured the horizon for a jurisdiction that has effectively implemented a short term so-called circuit breaker. It simply does not exist.
“Ontario, in their hot zones, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec in their hot zones, all imposed much, much more stringent measures than we have now in early November, as those folks recommended, and they will all have those policies in place over Christmas.”
The notion that “adjusting the toggles . . . to have a certain outcome in terms of COVID-19 numbers is not supported by the real experience out there.
“Ontario has had much more stringent measures in their large population areas now for six weeks and their numbers are going up.
“Much of Britain went to a hard lockdown, with stay-at-home orders, like seven weeks ago, and in many areas they’re expanding and deepening that.”
Britain’s pandemic is now complicated by the discovery of a new and much more transmissible variation of the virus. Several European countries have shut off travel from the U.K. On Sunday evening Canada banned flights originating there.
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