Improvement to fire services on first nations communities is another issue. This is something they have been advocating for over the last number of years. They have been consistent year after year in identifying their key concerns, asking for government to designate 10 MHz of spectrum on the public safety broadband, which would provide volunteer fire services and first responders with state-of-the-art communications.
He is on the national executive and continues to do great work for that organization and for firefighters. Brent Denny from Cape Breton regional fire services has been a strong advocate for the fire chiefs. Certainly in my consultations with the fire chiefs, they have been consistent year after year. Never over the course of those discussions did this ever come out as an issue. Today, I know the local construction workers in my home community of Cheverie drive into Halifax every single day on sometimes terrible roads in awful conditions in the middle of winter, leaving their homes at 5 a.m., driving home in the evenings, leaving before dawn and getting home after dark, and piling into cars with their lunch boxes and their thermoses and their gear ready to go to work, driving over these rough roads in terrible conditions, every single day from Cheverie, Bramber, Walton, Scotch Village, and all our local communities.Īt that time, I was able to speak with a great number of volunteer fire department chiefs from across the country and a great number of volunteer firefighters. I know in my father's case he was not in the construction trade but he drove 52 miles from Cheverie to downtown Halifax every day for work, for decades.
As I mentioned before, a thriving construction industry in Canada is an important source of good jobs and incomes for Canadian middle class families, and we can no doubt all talk about individual stories of workers who have travelled great distances for work. We may want to look at examples from other jurisdictions.
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