I've come across a weird one. Now, I'm not saying there is a PTB/WEF hand in it, but over the past number of days, I've run into a timeline that seems a bit coincidental. A very little Alberta backstory first.
My opinion about Alberta's Premier, Jason Kenney, has changed a bit since looking into this timeline. I'm not saying I agree with everything he has done since becoming Premier. I don't. But, around the time of a year ago, Jason Kenney was very against any Covid restrictions or mandates since, he believed, they would do much harm to all levels of the economy. He seems to not have been a very popular Premier to begin with (firstly because he was seen as not being 'tough enough' with Trudeau over economic reasons and secondly because of his 'mismanagment' of the pandemic) and his stance on 'economy over Covid' opened him up to such criticism that even up to ten members of his own party were calling for his resignation (though I'm not entirely sure they were for Covid reasons). Nevertheless, he eventually had to change his tune, bringing in the things he did not support.
Now, to start the timeline, I just want to begin with a news report/opinion piece that has nothing to do with Covid specifically. I can't say it has a direct influence on what I'm trying to show, you understand, but because of some of the comments made by Kenney, It's pretty wild if it does. The gist of the piece, which was written well into the pandemic, has to do with the economy: Alberta energy, jobs and equalization payments.
July 16, 2021:
Bell: Kenney, What's does he think of Trudeau now?
“Justin Trudeau’s government is the worst federal government Alberta has had since the earlier Trudeau government inflicted the National Energy Program on us,” says Premier Kenney.
“In the last 40 years, this is the worst federal government for Alberta by a country mile.”
How bad is bad?
Kenney looks back with fondness to a former Liberal prime minister and a former Liberal cabinet minister from Edmonton.
“More and more, in hindsight, I appreciate Jean Chretien, the tough blue-collar guy from Shawinigan who authorized every one of the major oilsands projects up north.”
‘When you look back, it helped unleash a period of prosperity.”
Kenney casts his mind back to those he calls “old-school Liberals” such as Chretien and Anne McLellan, named deputy prime minister when Liberal PM Paul Martin ran the show.
Kenney says old-school Liberals at least believed in good jobs in resource development.
“I miss that kind of Liberal,” he says.
What is the other kind of Liberal all about, today’s Liberal, the Justin Trudeau Liberal?
“Endless virtue-signalling for the Davos set, for the international jet-setting hypocrites.”
Davos, Switzerland. Disneyland for the global elites.
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Sept. 15, 2021:
BREAKING: Jason Kenney announces vaccine "restriction exemption program" for Alberta
Alberta’s Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced that the Government of Alberta will be implementing several restrictions on September 16, 2021.
Jason Kenney has committed time and time again that Alberta will not accept or facilitate vaccine passports in Alberta — he went on to say that a vaccine passport would contravene the Health Information Act and potentially the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. He also boasted about his government amending the Public Health Act, removing a 110-year-old power allowing the government to force people to be inoculated. Furthermore, when I asked him if he would intervene on behalf of Albertan’s should the federal government attempt to enact a vaccine passport, he said he would.
Despite all these assurances, with the threat of the fourth wave looming and new political pressures, this commitment has evaporated. Kenney has declared a state of emergency and stated that Alberta must take measures to maximize healthcare capacity, slow transmission and increase vaccination.
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Sept. 20, 2021 saw the second stage of restrictions implemented including mandatory masking.
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Oct. 12, 2021:
No end date or target for Alberta's vaccine passport program, Kenny says
Alberta’s vaccine passports will remain in place through at least the first quarter of 2022, at which point the Alberta government will reassess the program, Premier Jason Kenney says.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Kenney said the government will review its “restrictions exemption program” next year based on provincial and global COVID trends, though he was clear there is no specific target for case counts or vaccination rates that will automatically trigger the end of the program.
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“We have not defined a particular criteria to end the program,” Kenney said. “I fully expect that we will have it in place through at least the first quarter of next year, because we are headed into an uncertain period.”
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Dec. 28, 2021:
From the Feb. 8
CPAC video:
30:56- "In terms of the eliminating the exemption program, as I pointed out Kirin (?), first of all, I think on Dec. 28th, our Covid Cabinet Committee came to a unanimous view that we should lift the restriction exemption program as soon as was feasible to do so because the case for it was simply no longer as compelling as it was when it was introduced in September. The program is no longer serving a useful and compelling purpose."
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Jan. 27, 2022:
Kenny looks toward lifting COVID-19 restrictions once hospital numbers start dropping
Alberta will begin lifting health restrictions once hospitalization rates drop, Premier Jason Kenney said Thursday.
"That day you're talking about is coming," Kenney told a news conference, responding to a question about when Albertans may see the easing of public health restrictions.
"I'm pretty confident it will come before the end of March. And I hope it comes — I'll just tell you this — we will eliminate the restrictions exemption program as soon as it is safe to do so."
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When the proof of vaccination option was introduced in September, Kenney had said he didn't foresee the program going beyond the first three months of 2022.
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Feb. 1, 2022: (
my post)
The Freedom Convoy arrived in Coutts and then left, according to a report from Chris Bennett, on the 29th. But it was reported that a second group, not affiliated with the Convoy, came in and set up the blockade and have stayed ever since.
The Coutts blockade WAS NOT set up by the convoy. The convoy arrived Saturday morning and set up to DELAY trucks going south. I have to say this again, they only delayed SOUTHBOUND trucks. By noon a group not from the convoy showed up and put up a blockade, stopping north and southbound traffic. I have to say this again, these people who were not part of the convoy protest BLOCKED BOTH NORTH AND SOUTHBOUND lanes. This blockade is NOT PART OF THE FREEDOM CONVOY!!!
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The Freedom Convoy broke up Saturday afternoon. These guys made their voices heard, then they went home. They have payments to make on those trucks, they can't afford to sit around idle for long. What you are seeing now has nothing to do with the Convoy.
This seems to be confirmed by a (more moderate) supporter and organizer for the 'splinter group' who called themselves Alberta Freedom Convoy 2022 (posted Feb. 2, 2022) (The reference to 'Bearhug' is the Canada-Unity group aka: Bearhug 2.0.):
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Feb. 9, 2022: As per the CPAC video where Jason Kenny lays out the plan to end all restrictions (that they wanted to end already on Dec. 28).
Stage 1: REP removed along with others. Mask restrictions for kids U12 removed, no masks for all ages of kids in schools on Feb. 14.
Stage 2: In effect
March 1, 2022, many other restrictions removed including the mask, gatherings and all capacity mandates, among others.
Stage 3: ...
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Kenney followed a plan of ending restrictions that was at least conceptualized as early as October 12 of last year, and ended them basically in the month he said they would end. But this is not the timeline issue. It's just showing the execution a plan. The issue is with the Coutts group.
So much attention was (and is still) focused on the Coutts border crossing because that's where the action was/is. But as far as the protest/blockade actually making any meaningful impact, Kenney reveals in the CPAC video that Alberta was never really in danger of supply issues. This tidbit of info was/is oddly omitted from news reports, that I have seen:
29:56- Jason Kenny- "I would point out to those involved in the blockade... something like 99.9% of truckers and trucks are not involved in that protest and, in fact, that blockade, all it does is inconvenience thousands of law abiding truckers, who are just trying to make a living, who now have to go to the three other ports of entry between Alberta and Montana."
I had
posted that there was only one (legal) border crossing to Montana when there are actually 13 crossings (one crossing is permanently closed). My bad, sorry.
Looking at some recent FB posts from Alberta Freedom Convoy 2022 (which is the Coutts group), they have blocked all traffic with some exceptions. If a truck full of cattle or perishables comes in they get a 'heads up' before hand and they let those through, but they apparently have told whoever to stop sending trucks to that border crossing saying they will not let them through every day.
Many in the Coutts group fully believe they are winning this battle, following the announcement on CPAC, and yet, reading some of the replies, there is a lot of mistrust for the plan and Kenney (Kenney has reinstated and removed Covid restrictions of varying degrees several times over the past year.).
But as I've shown, Jason Kenney is following his own timeline that was set from at least October of last year right down to the month of lifting the majority of the mandates. March. So from what I can see, this Coutts group is having zero effect whatsoever on government policy. Some of this group obviously watched the CPAC announcement but did they watch the 'other ports of entry' part?
So why are they still there?
They say it's to hold the Alberta government to its word that the restrictions will actually end.
And now the focus might be shifting from provincial to local which Kenney responded in the CPAC video he has no power over because the 'vax-pass' is federally mandated (but does not need to be enforced provincially or locally, but can be):
I fully understand that there may be absolutely nothing in the PTB/WEF/Antifa department with the Coutts group directly and that this group's sole purpose is freedom for the people. If it is, more power to them! I do question the
effectiveness that the blockade is having at Coutts. And perhaps
that's the point of it, if there's anything 'nefarious'.
Jason Kenny is doing his best to navigate through this crazy time. I'm not sure if the Coutts group sees that.
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