Alberta Announces Funding to Help Business Implement Vaccine Passport Program

Alberta Announces Funding to Help Business Implement Vaccine Passport Program
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney takes the podium at a news conference where the provincial government announced new restrictions because of the surging COVID cases in the province, in Calgary, Alta., on Sept. 3, 2021. The Canadian Press/Todd Korol
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The Alberta government is providing new funding to offset costs businesses that choose to implement the province’s proof-of-vaccination program.

Small- and medium-sized businesses that adopt Alberta’s version of a vaccine passport will soon be given a one-time payment of $2,000, the Alberta government announced on Oct. 7.