🇨🇦 B.C. mayor calls on Ottawa to stop rolling ER closures amid wildfires

The clearest indictment is right there: 137 emergency room closures across B.C.’s Interior in 2025, averaging one every 2.6 days, and now a mayor is begging Ottawa while Merritt shelters 300 evacuees and 150 firefighters. That is what state capacity looks like after years of managerial grandstanding and health-system decay. When first responders have to make a one-hour trip to Kamloops or Kelowna because the local ER is shut again, the slogans about resilience and preparedness collapse on contact with reality, as reported.

Mike Goetz says he has lost confidence in David Eby’s government, and fair enough. A town of 7,000 facing its 10th temporary shutdown of the year is not a blip, it is institutional failure. Josie Osborne stays quiet, Marjorie Michel is monitoring closely, and the bureaucracy hums its usual lullaby while communities are left exposed. This is the liberal model in miniature: endless coordination, zero competence, and a population told to accept managed decline as normal.

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