OTTAWA — Alberta’s Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says she’s not worried about national reaction to the province’s new policy of making most residents pay out-of-pocket for COVID shots. Article content

In fact, she expects other jurisdictions to eventually follow in Alberta’s footsteps, after Ottawa made provinces and territories responsible for buying their own vaccines earlier this year. Article content

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“I know that other provinces are looking at what Alberta’s doing because we’ve all seen wastage,” LaGrange told the National Post in an interview on Monday.

LaGrange said the current norm of free COVID shots for anybody who wants one is unsustainable.

“I don’t see how the federal government, or any other province … can justify continuing

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