An old cowboy will tell you that if you've got a green horse or one that's a bit wild and you want to get up into its saddle you get a helper to bite the horse's ear. The theory being, that the bite on the ear will distract the horse's attention from what's really happening. After the rider is safely in the saddle the helper will let go of the horse's ear and make a run for the fence; the rider is on his own!
I fear that the good people of Airdrie are having their ears bitten. All this rhetoric about creating only a "24 hour health care" facility is distracting the good people of Airdrie from what should be the goal; getting a full fledged hospital in that great little city!
Getting a 24-hour health care facility is obvious and should start to happen within the next few months. Getting the hospital will take much longer.
We need a regional association, created to keep pushing for that hospital! As mentioned on this blog, before, it took Vaughan, Ontario more than thirty years to finally get the province to listen and get a real hospital built. We can't wait that long!
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