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Here’s one Ontario taxpayer who must be questioning those who he pays taxes to.

Pickering Fire Deputy Chief Simon Almond said the fire department got a call at 7:22 p.m. and were on the scene at 7:36 p.m., with two pumpers, two tankers, a command vehicle, and 18 firefighters in tow.

“That would be our normal response to that type of call,” he said.

16 mins to a fire in an urban area?  That’s acceptable?

What the story doesn’t say, and I can’t find a link online, is that the man was driven to Rochester, NY, 4 hours away – since the local air ambulance was unavailable.

No burn unit bed in Ontario, or for that matter, Quebec.  No ambulance to fly him quickly to a bed to recover or even perhaps survive.

Welcome to third world health care.

God forgive if it was a bus full of burned people.  Then what?