RED DEER, Alberta—The issue of restrictive pandemic policies under Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) government and the fallout from them was raised during a UCP leadership candidates’ panel at a conservative conference in Red Deer on Sept. 24.
Leadership candidate Leela Aheer, a sitting UCP MLA and former minister, was asked by co-host Lindsay Wilson at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference what her response would be to Albertans who lost their jobs during the pandemic or faced “discrimination” and the loss of bodily autonomy, and how people can be sure it would never happen again.