The Alberta government has released its final report on the information that informed the province’s COVID-19 response. The 269 page document concluded that in order to prepare for future pandemics, Alberta’s right to care and informed consent and the right for health care professionals to provide treatments that are in the patient’s best interest must be preserved. Among the recommendations of the report were that: The report was prepared by a panel of physicians and other experts and was commissioned by Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government. In a statement to CTV News Edmonton on Sunday, a spokesperson from the health ministry said the province “will review and consider this report and its findings, (but) no policy decisions have been made in relation to it at this time.” Smith took over as premier after the height of the pandemic, when Jason Kenney was premier of Alberta and leader of the UCP.
