Health Minister warned more than a year ago.

A provincial Code Red sounded at the government health committee meeting Thursday.

MLA Tammy Martin asked paramedics union executive Terry Chapman what happens if someone calls 911 from New Waterford for a loved one in cardiac arrest and the nearest ambulance is in Baddeck.

“You wait, you wait with a person that will probably be not living when they arrive,” Chapman responded.

“To make people who pay taxes aware of the probability that there may not be an ambulance when you need it,” he said of the paramedics’ immediate goal after more than a year of “poking the bear,” the Liberal government.

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