Hamer-Jackson said he wants to send a letter to B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix
Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson wants to know what he can do to get the province’s proposed cancer centre in Kamloops built as early as possible.
Hamer-Jackson told media following the June 27 council meeting he will be drafting a letter to B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix asking him to explain what measures he can take before council to get the facility fast tracked.
“All its going to be is as the mayor … if there’s anything that I can do, as the mayor, to help you, to help us get a cancer clinic sooner than Nanaimo, sooner than this, sooner than that, then that’s it,” Hamer-Jackson said.
Hamer-Jackson said he’s already spoken with his executive assistant about drafting the letter and believes he may be able to send to without discussing it with council first.
“I think I can do it as the mayor, myself, but in this city who knows?” Hamer-Jackson said.
The mayor said if Dix gives him a list of things that can be done to speed up the process, he will then take that to council to get passed.
Back on May 25, Adrian Dix was in Kamloops to announce the provincial NDP government would build a cancer care centre in Kamloops with an opening date of 2027 — at least three years later than what was promised by the current government in 2020.
