Leduc letting local state of emergency lapse to avoid ‘redundancy’ with provincial COVID-19 measures

The state of local emergency that Leduc declared last month because of the COVID-19 crisis will be allowed to lapse on Monday, but a city official says residents should know that “does not mean the risk is gone.”

“While we continue to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Leduc, the public health orders implemented by AHS and the province have given us the tools we need to enforce as well as to protect our community throughout this pandemic,” George Clancy, the fire chief and director of emergency management for the City of Leduc, said in a news release issued Thursday.

“This is simply a decision aimed at avoiding redundancy with provincial measures already in place.”

The Alberta government amended the Emergency Management Act on March 20, allowing local and provincial states of emergency coexist at the same time. Before that change, a provincial state of emergency nullified a local one, taking some powers away from local officials.

Premier Jason Kenney declared COVID-19 a public health emergency in Alberta on March 17.

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The City of Leduc declared a local state of emergency on March 16 in response to the public health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. At the time, the city also activated its emergency co-ordination centre and closed all of its rec centres until further notice.


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