A grieving father in Manitoba’s Interlake is blasting a new requirement that provinces must be told within two hours of a 911 outage, arguing a shorter timeline is needed to potentially save lives like his son's.

Raymond Switzer says telecommunication companies should be alerting provincial emergency management organizations as soon as possible.

On March 23, Raymond’s family and friends frantically tried to help his son Dean Switzer, 55, after he had a heart attack. They performed CPR and called 911 more than 20 times, but no calls went through.

“If we could have help within the first half hour, he may even still be with us,” Raymond said of his son.

Raymond is joining the province in demanding faster notifications of 911 outages.

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