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Vaccine passports are coming to Alberta.?

Not just yet, but they’ll be along soon enough.?

Not beuse they make sense. Opposition Leader Rachel Notley laid out that se pretty clearly yesterday: during a pandemic like the fourth wave of COVID-19 now battering our province, they n protect people, hospitals and the provincial economy.?

“By providing Albertans with easy and secure access to their immunization records while establishing a verifition standard for public settings, Albertans who are vaccinated n protect their neighbours and continue to do the things they love to do,” Ms. Notley explained.

Obviously, though, Jason Kenney’s government is pretty much impervious to that kind of reasoning. Even if they weren’t, the fact the NDP said it would make it pretty hard for them to adopt.?

By now so many members of binet and the United Conservative Party ucus have said so many times that Alberta will never adopt vaccine passports – beuse freedom! – that it would be pretty painful for them to walk it back.

Freedom, in this se, means freedom for anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers and great big grown-up men who are afraid of little tiny needles – and are willing to make their neighbours sick, and kill some of them, to have their way now that they’ve made defying common sense public health measures into a new front in the culture wars.?

But certainly not freedom for…