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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said unemployment could hit 25 per cent over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He made the comments at the Scotiabank CAPP Energy Conference on Tuesday morning, just hours before he was scheduled to deliver an address to Albertans about the projected extent of the outbreak and the effects it could have on the province’s economy.

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Kenney said the economic decline is set to be the worst crisis the province has faced since the Great Depression. Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said help was on the way in “hours or days” for the oil and gas sector, but that funding has yet to materialize.

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