The warning was written in British blood. Alberta read it and said "hold my beer."

In England, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine felt compelled to publish a study showing 1,300 excess deaths a month from long A&E waits. In Scotland and Wales…No royal college there has felt the need to count bodies and sound the alarm like that. And here in Alberta? …we have Dr. Paul Parks. A past president of our own medical association, touring the province, telling stories, begging for change.