Local MP and MPP Office Offers Defibrillator and CPR Service

Carleton Place – Last week, local MPP Randy Hillier and MP Scott Reid’s constituency office staff were given CPR training and shown how to use a defibrillator as part of the Canadian Heartland Program.

“This office is right in town,” said Hillier. “Having trained staff and equipment in a central location like this makes everyone in Carleton Place a little safer.”

Reid added “It is tough to predict where and when a cardiac arrest might happen, so the best way to ensure someone survives is to make sure folks are trained in CPR, get a bunch of AEDs out there, and the community knows where they are.”

Canadian Heartland was created in 2001, when Reid held a “constituency referendum” to determine whether he should opt out of a proposed $21,000 pay raise, or donate the raise to charity each year. Reid contributes the proceeds of his pay raise (over $250,000 so far) to a number of charitable causes aimed at increasing heart attack survival rates, including high school CPR courses, and defibrillators for police cars, fire halls, seniors’ centres, and arenas.

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For further information contact:

Blair Shumlich
Communications Assistant to Scott Reid, MP
613-947-2277

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