Ex-Reform leader Preston Manning picked to chair review of Alberta’s COVID responseEDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith has struck a committee to investigate how the Alberta government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appointed former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to chair it. “There are valuable lessons we learned from the Alberta government’s response to the COVID-19 public health emergency,” Smith said in a statement. She has promised health restrictions and vaccine mandates will have no role in any future COVID-19 response in Alberta. Smith promised a bill last fall to make it a human rights violation to discriminate against anyone for their COVID-19 vaccine status. She also promised to explore granting pardons and amnesties to those convicted of COVID public health violations.
