The post mentions Toronto, so I'm going to assume that the publicly funded Canadian health care system bears some responsibility for the sad outcome.

Yes. If emergency services were run by a private company, like airlines for example, they will never ever be 30 minutes late!

	▲	pas 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		that's not exactly fair, air travel is very well optimized for safety and costs, not for availability and latency (and cost in public systems)