Western Standard - October 22, 2022


AHS is to blame for our problems

Topics
Alberta Health Services problems
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Verna Yu Kenney
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

193.18

Word count

438

Sentence count

31


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In this episode, Alberta s premier, Jason Kenney, takes questions from the floor of the Alberta House of Commons about his leadership of the province's health care system, and the role of MLAs in the process.

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00:00:00.000 I hold Alberta Health Services accountable. I hold that. We gave them a lump sum of money
00:00:08.160 and said, run health care for us. And we were told, let the experts be in charge.
00:00:14.020 They've got it all figured out. They've developed integrated partnerships across the country
00:00:18.820 with their public, the chief medical officers of health. They also have their own COVID
00:00:25.920 scientific committees that were giving advice to government. And I think that, to be fair to
00:00:31.580 Premier Kenney, he's a brand new government coming in, brand new leader. He'd been focused on federal
00:00:37.340 issues for most of his career. He's brand new in health. And they were already beginning to see
00:00:41.180 that they had problems in health. But then 10 months into his mandate, he gets hit with a global
00:00:46.180 pandemic. And he's looking around, seeing what the rest of the world is doing. And these guys are all
00:00:50.500 saying, we're the experts. We know what we're doing. And so he trusted them. I think that when
00:00:54.980 the government fired Verna Yeo, that was pretty clear that we needed new leadership and a change
00:01:00.540 of direction. And I think that the fact that the Premier lost his position shows that it was an
00:01:06.340 error when vaccine exemptions or vaccine mandates came in. So I think that there has already been
00:01:12.940 that the ultimate accountability is the leader at the top, who was ultimately responsible for making
00:01:19.380 that decision, is not there anymore. A couple of his close allies in making that decision,
00:01:24.060 they're also taking a back seat. There are others who have been speaking openly about how they were
00:01:30.400 fighting behind the scenes. And I appreciate the fact that they did do that. But rank and file MLAs
00:01:35.040 really didn't have a role in making these decisions. And that's one of the problems. That's one thing we're
00:01:40.820 fixing, is that we're changing our policymaking process so that MLAs know our direction of government
00:01:47.040 right from the beginning. And they get to tell us right from the beginning if we're going in the right
00:01:50.420 direction, rather than announcing the policy, and then bringing them in at the end. So that's going
00:01:55.140 to, I think, solve a lot of problems. But I must tell you, I believe that Alberta Health Services is
00:02:01.720 the source of a lot of the problems that we've had. They signed some kind of partnership with the
00:02:07.340 World Economic Forum, right in the middle of the pandemic. We've got to address that. Why in the world
00:02:12.900 do we have anything to do with the whole World Economic Forum? That's got to end.