Periard says needs in their own community aren't being met because their ambulances are constantly being drawn to Ottawa.
"We had zero ambulances within the united counties of Prescott-Russell, while calls were being done in Ottawa,"
"It increases our response time within our municipality because we have 2000 square kilometres, if we have less vehicles to cover our area, they're going to be travelling more distance."
Those gaps also translate to money coming out of Prescott-Russell taxpayer pockets—nearly $1.5 million over the past two years. Of that, Ottawa would owe just over one million. But currently there’s nothing to compel either neighbouring department to pay back that money.
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