Alberta's new Health Minister - who did Jason Copping piss off?
Poor guy - quietly doing a good job and this is how Kenney rewards him.
The most unwanted job in the country. Maybe the commonwealth.
Last week Jason Copping was unceremoniously yanked from his portfolio of Labour and Immigration for the province of Oilberta, and dropped into the most undesirable job in the free world. That being Alberta’s Health Minister.
“What did I do wrong? I thought I was doing a good job,” a bewildered Copping asked of no one in particular when given the news.
“He seemed to think he was doing me a freaking favor. No one wants this shit. What the actual fuck do I know about health? My background is labour relations. We saw what happened when a lawyer was running the healthcare shop. You think it’s going to be any better with me? What am I expected to do - negotiate a new deal with the the Rona? Get COVID to slow down? Ludicrous.”
Now, I’m just a cat, but it’s my opinion that Kenney plans to contract out the entirety of Alberta Health to Ontario, with Doug Ford at the helm. Alberta Health is close to shipping COVID patients to places with the ICU beds to handle the load anyway. Alberta’s ICUs have been merely storing patients until they drop dead, but they are not dying as quickly as they were, which is causing a wee bit of a log jam in the province’s ICU’s, but morgue space is seeing some relief.
Kenney’s justification for sticking Ontario with the tab ran something along the lines of, “Well you guys fucked us over with NEP - we’re just trying to get a little payback,” referring to the National Energy Program from last century.
Apparently Copping is hoping to be back in the Labour and Immigration portfolio before Halloween.