Mr. Speaker, the committee was formed in 2012. It had representatives from the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Social Services, MACA. They were formed to implement a strategy to strengthen our community-based ambulance and highway rescue services. The strategy actually resulted in $1.63 million being provided to community government to support their community-based ground ambulance and highway rescue services, including upgrades, major repairs, or enhancements to existing mobile equipment or the purchase of new mobile equipment. Training which we found was going to be one of the major challenges for a lot of the communities, and we have taken steps to enhance our training programs to the communities so they can be a little more qualified at being first responders. There is a lot of work that has been done, and I think the next step is to try to identify the funding or find a way where we can provide the service or make it quite clear who is responsible for the service.
Robert C. McLeod on Question 180-18(2): Highway Rescue Services
In the Legislative Assembly on June 7th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 180-18(2): Highway Rescue Services
Oral Questions
June 6th, 2016
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