Send Paramedics

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves Kristine!!

“If 90% of the calls are EMS…do we even need fire stations? … it seems like we're dealing with an antiquated system. Shouldn’t we just blow up the model and do something differently, more focused on ambulances than fire?”

Hmmm 🤔🤔

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Getting reports that @MedavieElginEMS, run by @Medavie (a private, for-profit company), is so short staffed that a neighbouring service, @OxfordParamedic, is sending a fully staffed paramedic crew to them for an entire shift. This now leaves Oxford down a crew for the shift.

Hey @BellevilleON, @cityofmarkham, and @cityoftoronto why is a private company being contracted out to provide the work of your actual paramedic employees?! You also do realize that this company isn't an actual paramedic service and doesn't staff with paramedics right?

So @JohnTory does a big press release about investing more into paramedic services, yet the proposed budget is simply following pre-existing plans from 5 years ago!! It’s clearly all about how you spin it 🙄