Kenney rejects criticism he waited on new COVID rules, calls it ‘Alberta bashing’

EDMONTON – Premier Jason Kenney is rejecting criticism he waited too long to bring in tighter COVID-19 measures, labelling such talk as “Alberta bashing.”

Kenney made the comment in an interview on Edmonton’s CHED radio station.

It comes a day after he accused a reporter of being an Opposition NDP partisan for asking if the United Conservative premier takes responsibility for the recent surge in infections and deaths given he didn’t heed public calls to act faster.

Kenney has imposed new sweeping sanctions to shut down almost all public activities while keeping retail businesses open at sharply reduced capacity.