EDMONTON --
The Alberta government is highlighting its Budget 2021 commitment of $20 million to the Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute as "more important than ever in the COVID pandemic context."
The four-year funding renewal to the University of Alberta research centre, whose director was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, represents an opportunity for Alberta to be better prepared for future health emergencies, Premier Jason Kenney said.
"Canada realizes that we can never again be at the whim of other countries and the politics of different nations when it comes to vaccine security," he commented at a Thursday news conference.