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Her two-year-old daughter limp and blue in her arms, Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk sat in the back of an ambulance tearing the wrong way down Whyte Avenue towards the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

A previously unknown peanut allergy had sent the toddler into anaphylactic shock in her hometown of Vegreville.

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Repeated jabs of epinephrine weren’t working. She couldn’t breathe. It was too late for a tracheotomy.

“I made a promise that day to God that if He let my daughter survive, I would do anything to help somebody with allergies. No parent should have to go through that,” a visibly emotional Armstrong-Homeniuk told a legislative committee Tuesday morning.

Armstrong-Homeniuk’s daughter, Jacklyn Homeniuk, survived the ordeal.

Now the MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville is making good on her silent promise.

Mandatory training, EpiPens, anaphylaxis policies

On May 30, Armstrong-Homeniuk tabled private member’s Bill 201, the Protection Of Students With Life-Threatening Allergies Act.