Alberta Boot Project draws attention at Calgary’s Peace Bridge
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Summary
In this episode of The Boot Project in Calgary, I talk about how many people have been affected by Alberta Health Services' COVID-19 policy, and how many have been put on leave of absence because of it.
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this is the boot project in Calgary Alberta this is our second day on the road we were in Edmonton
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two days ago we are currently at the south side of the Peace Bridge in Calgary the updated count
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I believe is 781 pairs of shoes which have been donated to be used in displays around Alberta to
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try and bring a little bit of awareness to just how many people are affected by Alberta Health
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Services COVID-19 policy which they released not long ago and which ended up in every single one of
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these people being put onto leave of absence as of December 3rd or 13th which was one week ago this
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years of service is actually a little bit outdated current years of service represented are 12,038
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not counting the four pairs of shoes that came in today that I haven't calculated yet it's an
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astronomical number there's more over here you know what it's a bit of a traumatizing thing to
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walk through as you read the stories and the descriptions and the years of service of all
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the people have been affected this may be represents one-tenth of the health care workers in Alberta who
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have been put on leave of absence because of the mandates this is just the amount of shoes that we
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were able to collect in three days so there's a lot more coming in every day I'm getting about 50 text
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messages on my phone asking if people can add more boots to the project where we're going from there
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we're currently doing tours of Alberta so after this we plan to be in Red Deer tomorrow we're
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going to take a break for Christmas and then we'll be back on the road again in the new year
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it's sobering it's really really sobering but at the same time I find some courage in the fact that
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every single one of these people was faced with the most difficult decision of their entire career
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and every single one chose not to take the easy way out they chose conscience over coercion and they
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chose to stand up for what they believe to be right some of them stood up because they're medically unable
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to take the vaccine some of them stood up because they're religiously unable to take the vaccine but
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every single one of them is paying the consequences of Alberta Health Services refusal to accept any
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other means of disease prevention than mandatory vaccination we're here hoping that we can get
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Alberta Health Services attention and work with them to find other viable alternatives to make sure that
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our patients and our communities stay safe because you know what firing this many people is not safe