You’re the Government of Alberta. Your province is in the middle of a health care crisis. There’s a global influenza pandemic, and your province has seen over a thousand cases (behind only Ontario and Quebec in total numbers) and two deaths in three months. What do you do?
Can someone explain to me why, in the middle of a pandemic, would the government choose to sack someone who appears to be respected by peers both internationally and locally? Especially since co-workers appear to be “impressed with how well-prepared the provincial laboratory was for the deluge of testing for the H1N1 virus.” The only possible rational I can make of it so far is that the Stelmach government is so determined to show that less government is better, It’s decided to prove it by acting as incompetently as possible.



