Opposition Leader Rachel Notley and MLA Shannon Phillips joined #Lethbridge firefighters today to call on Health Minister Tyler Shandro to abandon his misguided plan to take local ambulance dispatch away from Lethbridge and three other Alberta communities.
#yql #abhealth
"There is no evidence that this move will improve ambulance services and there’s a real chance it will make services worse. It’s just not worth it to roll the dice on such a critical system with the lives of Albertans at stake."
- @RachelNotley
Shandro’s plan to centralize the four regional dispatch centres was previously rejected by the Notley NDP government, as well as previous PC governments.
The plan was harshly criticized by MLA @prasadpandayyc when he was a Wildrose MLA, and two current UCP MLAs, @TanyYao and @Drew__Barnes, have also urged Shandro to drop it.
"This is not a partisan issue. It’s a public safety issue and a Lethbridge issue. Nathan Neudorf’s silence on this issue is a big problem. It’s not how we do things in Lethbridge."
- @SPhillipsAB MLA for Lethbridge West
Notley and Phillips were joined by Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services Deputy Chief Kelly L’Hirondelle and IAFF Local 237 president Warren Nelson, an active Lethbridge firefighter.
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