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   CBC News · Posted: Nov 25, 2020   
      
   Conservative support dipping in the provinces hardest hit by COVID-19 — and   
   governed by Conservatives   
      
   Alberta is now one of Canada's worst COVID-19 hotspots and Premier Jason   
   Kenney's handling of the pandemic in his province is getting low marks,   
   according to polls.   
      
   It might also be sapping support for the federal Conservative Party in its   
   most loyal stronghold.   
      
   On Sunday and Monday, Alberta reported over 1,500 new cases of COVID-19 — a   
   number similar to or greater than the daily counts in Ontario and Quebec, two   
   provinces with much larger populations. The province's hospitals are filling   
   up and there are    
   serious concerns that continued spread will push the health care system beyond   
   its limits.   
      
   Kenney introduced a series of new measures and restrictions on Tuesday, but   
   throughout the crisis Kenney's United Conservatives have adopted an   
   ideological approach to the pandemic — banking on appeals to personal   
   responsibility and individual freedom    
   rather than restrictions and lockdowns, with an eye toward keeping businesses   
   open.   
      
   It hasn't worked. If Canada as a whole experienced Alberta's per capita growth   
   in cases, its total would be well over 10,000 new cases per day — ranking it   
   as one of the worst-afflicted countries in the world.   
      
   Albertans are not pleased. Last week's survey by Léger for the Canadian Press   
   and the Association for Canadian Studies found just 37 per cent of Albertans   
   reporting satisfaction with the measures put in place by the provincial   
   government.   
      
   That put Kenney's government at the bottom of the ranking of provincial   
   governments in the poll — and lower than Albertans' expressed satisfaction   
   (46 per cent) with the measures put in by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government   
   in Ottawa.   
      
   Alberta's nine-point spread in that poll — between voters' satisfaction with   
   provincial pandemic measures and their assessment of Ottawa's performance —   
   was the widest in the country.   
      
   The poll was conducted between Nov. 13 and 15, when Alberta was averaging 975   
   new cases per day. With the province's daily count of new cases now hovering   
   around 1,500, it is unlikely Kenney's numbers have improved.   
      
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