Alberta government implements temporary measures allowing reservists to deploy to G7

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 2:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 14 minutes ago

The Alberta authorities has implemented impermanent measures to let subject reservists to deploy arsenic portion of June's G7 leaders acme successful Kananaskis Country.

Canada volition big the leaders of the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy, arsenic good arsenic the European Union astatine the gathering scheduled June 15-17.

Alberta Jobs Minister Matt Jones says the authorities is providing a job-protected permission truthful the members tin support their civilian jobs portion taking portion successful G7.

The impermanent ministerial regularisation enabling Alberta-based Canadian Armed Forces reserves to instrumentality permission takes effect March 31 and expires connected August 31.

Jones says it was brought to his attraction that the subject unit wouldn't beryllium covered nether mean reservist permission to enactment successful the event.

He says helium isn't progressive successful readying G7 but says due to the fact that it's a large, analyzable event, determination volition beryllium different changes that the Alberta authorities volition beryllium required to facilitate.