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“Also, that they work as collaboratively as possible with the rest of the systems involved, whether that’s the school system, the health system and the human services system, the major departments dealing with these folks and these families.”

Results of the review are expected to be released in early February, just weeks after 53-year-old David McQueen was killed Sunday in an armed police standoff in northwest Calgary. Police say they responded after shots were being fired “indiscriminately” from the home, including one that struck a Calgary Transit bus and nearly hit the driver.

McQueen, who got around in a wheelchair after becoming paralyzed in a diving accident in the early 1990s, was deeply unhappy with the healthcare system, the police and the government, whom he blamed for not giving him the help he needed, which he detailed in his Facebook posts.

Loved ones say he had become increasingly disturbed over the last few years, but he took a turn for the worse when his beloved service dog, Bear, died of cancer earlier this month.

McQueen often reached out to Swann’s constituency office, and his story is one Swann said is similar to stories he has heard many times from different individuals.

“Very, very few of these individuals will ever wind up in a situation where they hurt others, but Alberta has now seen several incidents involving people suffering from mental health problems. There has to be real change, and soon,” Swann said in a statement released shortly after Sunday’s incident.