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Published Monday, December 14, 2015 8:17PM AST
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Paramedics were rallying in Moncton on Monday against New Brunswick’s
language regulations, saying an increasing number of first responders
have been forced to find work elsewhere.</p>
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Under the province’s language law, paramedics must be able to provide
service to patients in both official languages. If a bilingual paramedic
calls in sick, a bilingual paramedic must replace them.</p>
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“They're telling people that have been born and brought up in a certain
area,” said Pat Hepditch, president of the New Brunswick Council of
Hospital Unions,“that because you can't meet a proficiency test, you're
no longer good enough to work there.”</p><div style="display:block" class="">
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<p class="">Paramedics rally in Moncton against New Brunswick's language laws. </p>
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That could mean calling in someone from a different community.</p>
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“If they can't find anybody,that ambulance goes out of service. That ambulance is parked,” said Hepditch.</p>
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Hepditch says the language policy is forcing unilingual paramedics to
leave the province for work, affecting staffing levels in New Brunswick.</p>
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“It could be done with a translation service. Patient care has never
been affected in any of these language complaints. Not one patient has
been affected by whether they were treated by an anglophone or
francophone paramedic,” said Hepditch.</p>
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Health Minister Victor Boudreau says he can't speak to that, but
insists linguistic policies in New Brunswick need to be followed.</p>
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“I do know that it certainly caused complaints in the past and even some legal pursuits,” said Boudreau.</p>
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A similar rally was held in Saint John, where CUPE provincial
vice-president Denny Cogswell said the language law is creating
animosity among paramedics.</p>
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“For our people, this isn't about the law. This is about how this
company’schoosing to implement that law to cause a division within our
workforce,” said Cogswell.</p>
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Boudreau says there is no choice when it comes to the law.</p>
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“Ambulance New Brunswick, being a third-party service provider to
government, does have to respect the linguistic laws that are in
place.”</p><p><a href="http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-paramedics-rally-against-language-laws-1.2700211">http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-paramedics-rally-against-language-laws-1.2700211</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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