'Division and confusion': Edmonton vs. Alberta mask showdown happening Tuesday
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City councillors will discuss what to do with Edmonton's mask bylaw at a special meeting Tuesday afternoon, but their power to keep it may be gone soon.
City councillors will discuss what to do with Edmonton's mask bylaw at a special meeting Tuesday afternoon, but their power to keep it may be gone soon.
Edmonton has the last remaining mask mandate in Alberta and it's become a point of contention between Mayor Amarjeet Sohi and Premier Jason Kenney.
"We should not allow politicians, at any level, to use COVID policy as a political tool to make political points," Kenney said last Wednesday.
"As we now leave broad-based COVID restrictions behind, and move to an endemic phase, it's important we do so with unity and clarity as opposed to division and confusion."
But Sohi argues Alberta is moving "too soon and too fast" to drop COVID-19 health measures and he asked Kenney to respect local decision making.
The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m.
Kenney said earlier in the pandemic that municipalities should be in charge of mask mandates.
