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As Alberta continues to outperform official COVID-19 models, the province announced Saturday it will send its surplus of ventilators and personal protective equipment to Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.

The province is donating 750,000 N95 masks, seven million procedural masks and 50 ventilators, as well as gloves and goggles, to the three provinces, which are at risk of running low on medical equipment as they fight to contain outbreaks of the novel coronavirus.

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Premier Jason Kenney said even with the considerable donations, he is “absolutely confident” there’s no risk of Alberta running out of equipment itself.

“These contributions will in no way undermine our capacity to provide the critical protective equipment and ventilators to Alberta’s medical professionals and to other associated frontline workers,” Kenney said.

“We would not contribute if it in any way impaired our ability to provide for our own health care needs, but I for one, as an Albertan and as a Canadian, could not in conscience watch us stockpile massive amounts of surplus equipment while we see many of our fellow Canadians, some provinces, within days of running out of some of these supplies.”