10-06-2021, 05:06 PM
(10-06-2021, 04:26 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-06-2021, 02:21 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Now, is there any particular reason why fire services have to be a city responsibility rather than regional, the way police and EMS are (not to mention transit, libraries and public health)?
Libraries are a city responsibility. The region ALSO runs a library program, but does so for the townships where there are no local libraries.
As for fire, that's an interesting question. FWIW, the townships run a fire program that is significantly different from our programs, it's volunteer, non-full-time. That is the kind of differentiation that tends to get lost in amalgamation.
If libraries are run differently in the townships, and transit is run differently in the townships, surely we could run fire services differently in the townships as well.