I have to say that I was pretty happy to be in Alberta during Covid. We moved from Ontario in 2018 and the amount of random school closures throughout the 2 years in Ontario would have driven me insane with small children.
We fared no better, or worse than any other Province in my eyes. We did it with less restrictions the whole way through. The two biggest issues were the delayed reaction to the wave in fall 2021 and the vaccine passport, or restrictions exemptions program if you will. Although I don't think anyone would have done tremendously better at it. Actually I think we would have gone along with Ontario and Quebec's strategies if the NDP were in power, which I see as a negative.
The rest of the issues comes down to a weak cabinet. I think there were only a handful of productive ministers. This is just not an Alberta problem, it's a Canadian government problem. We have a tremendous amount of incompetence in some of our ministries. Don't get me wrong the failure goes up to leadership as well. The biggest failure is not the governing but the attracting and maintaining a group of competent caucus members that make a good cabinet.