Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she would shut down Preston Manning-led COVID-19 panel if elected
Alberta Opposition Leader Rachel Notley says if her NDP was to win the spring election, it would scrap a COVID-19 review panel led by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning.
“[Manning] brings no objectivity [and] no scientific expertise to the job of assessing and evaluating this issue,” she added. Smith responded to concerns about Manning’s appointment while speaking Saturday to listeners on her Corus call-in radio show. “You need someone who has stature so that there’s credibility to the process, and Preston had already indicated that he wanted to do this at the national level,” Smith said on the radio show.“When you ask someone who is a high-profile person to give up everything else that they’re doing, sometimes you have to be willing to pay for it,” she said.
In November, Manning announced plans for the citizen-led and funded cross-country inquiry into the effects of Canada’s response to the pandemic. In May 2022, Manning submitted to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy an essay on how such a national citizen-led COVID-19 inquiry might go.
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