Health committee  Once it's changed from the federal level, we'll have that ability to make sure we're covered municipally.

Health committee  If I may use Barrie as an example, because of the way it was rolled out federally, we were completely out. We weren't given that opportunity to lobby municipally or provincially. We were out.

Health committee  I'd like to point out that when we are called it's usually in the most severe cases. It's not just because someone needs transportation to the hospital. We're called because there is a need. In the upper echelon of medical response, that's when they ask firefighters to attend, an

Health committee  I can speak to that first. I know there are a lot of municipalities across Canada where paramedics and firefighters even work on the same truck. You could have a situation where there's a paramedic who does have tier one access and is available to get the inoculation, but the fir

Health committee  I can speak to that. How exposed are we, or how are we exposed? I work in Barrie, Ontario, and 80% of the time we're the first responders in advance of the paramedics to medical calls. When a medical call we're tiered out to is defined as shortness of breath, any chest pains, g

Health committee  Thank you. The federal government's guidance on vaccine sequencing, released through the Public Health Agency of Canada in September 2009, was drafted as a guideline for provincial and health officials to help them determine who to prioritize for the H1N1 vaccine once it became