Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine If You Live: Our 2026 Election Briefing Is Here
Today, Med Response BC is releasing our Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine Election Briefing — a short, evidence-based case for closing the rural emergency transport gap that puts British Columbians at risk every day.
The facts are stark. Rural British Columbians face up to a tenfold higher risk of death from major trauma than urban patients. When emergency transport can’t come in time — a situation that happens too often — there is no second option. Nowhere else in healthcare does a “no” end all options.
So we’re putting one question to every candidate this election: What is your plan to ensure rural and remote communities get the critical care they need, in time?
Our proposed answer is Brayden’s Law — a common-sense amendment to BC’s Emergency Health Services Act that would let bedside clinicians initiate emergency transport, guarantee a backup when BCEHS is unavailable, and license qualified non-profits like MRBC to work alongside BCEHS. It’s an internationally proven model that complements existing services — it doesn’t replace them.
We’re not alone. BC Family Doctors has endorsed this approach, with its Put Healthcare on the Ballot campaign calling on all parties to enact Brayden’s Law and modernize our emergency transport systems.
Read the briefing, then take 60 seconds to act: ask your local candidate and MLA to champion Brayden’s Law — and email your questions or support to info@medresponsebc.ca.
Because where you live should never determine if you live.
