Subhead:Ottawa had the authority — or at least they thought they did. They had the orders; they had the ambition to control people’s movement and quarantine travellers. But they didn’t have the boots on the ground in Alberta to make their system work the way they wanted.#
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Let me tell you about one of those moments when government paperwork accidentally tells the truth.
You know the kind, the line buried deep in a bureaucratic email that explains a whole lot more than the government probably intended.
We finally received some records through an access to information request about the federal government’s COVID quarantine planning. It took years, but thanks to your donations at RebelInvestigates.com, we finally have them.
But inside those documents is a very revealing exchange between officials at the Public Health Agency of Canada discussing how they would set up quarantine facilities in Alberta.
In that email, they admit something pretty blunt. They write:
We have identified a Quarantine Site in Edmonton — Note: it is not operationally feasible to operate independent sites in Alberta given our limited human resource capacity in Alberta.
Think about that for a second.
The federal government had these sweeping plans during COVID — quarantine orders, isolation hotels, travel restrictions, controlling how Canadians moved around the country.
But when it came to Alberta? They simply didn’t have the staff.
