I disagree.
I think they are demoting those hillbillies who are still harming and refusing to treat patients based on their 1976 2 week EMT course, and 30 years of repeating the same "scoop and scoot" bullshit transport on every patient.
There are some very very poor practitioners in rural Sk (and Ab) and I think this is a great step towards a "S**t or get off the pot" motivation pushing them back into the classroom to increase competency, or off the ambulance.
Until you do a ALS intercept to a unconcious preggo with a C-collar upside down, and a NRB at 4lt, you may not understand