Alberta businesses react to new, tighter COVID-19 restrictions Northern Chicken owner Andrew Cowan has spent the past 10 months following mandatory restrictions — sometimes announced without notice — to stay afloat.Cowan is frustrated government officials haven’t been doing the same.“It was super hypocritical,” he said.“I don’t know how they can ask all of us to do all these things and they’re just, ‘Oh whatever, I’m just going to do what I want for the holidays.'”The UCP has come under heavy fire over the past several days after Kenney did not discipline those in his party who left Canada, despite advice from both the provincial and the federal government to avoid non-essential travel amid the pandemic.On Friday, Kenney said he was.