Situation in Isolated Communities in Labrador becoming desperate and Government failing to act

 MHA for Cartwright – L’Anse au Clair, Yvonne Jones, is urgently calling on government to act now on behalf of three communities in her district that are left stranded with no medical, mail or food deliveries for 16 days.  Due to unusually mild temperatures and bad weather conditions, residents of Norman Bay, William’s Harbour and Black Tickle are unable to travel out of their communities by snowmobile and because of bad weather conditions for days, there has been no air service to these communities.  

 “Nowhere else in the province would this situation be tolerated and it should not be tolerated in Labrador.  Government has an obligation to put something in place to provide residents with the basic necessities of life and they are very slow to act.  My office has received call after call regarding various desperate situations being faced.  There is one resident who is completely out her prescribed insulin and is making due with an old prescription that was not successful for her initially.”   

 “The request for service has been made by my office and representatives from these communities and the only response so far has been that there is no money left in budget for helicopter time.  This a lame excuse to put forward, and this situation should be given priority and rectified immediately.”