I know that Dr. Adams mentioned the First Nations Health Authority, which is constantly referred to as the example across the country of what should be done.
I know that, in the province of Alberta, for example, which has Treaty 6, 7 and 8, some nations within Treaty 8, like the Bigstone Cree nation, have taken over their NIHB program. I have patients who access that; I see them as a frontline provider.
What I and other indigenous physicians who work with that program have found with that particular program is that it's even more difficult to get pharmaceutical drugs, medications, equipment and supplies covered. What I observe happening is that the restrictions that were under NIHB are exacerbated. I'm not sure if, in this transfer of funds to the nations and communities themselves, the funding is further restricted so that communities and nations are then administering their own poverty with funds that are given and transferred from federal programs and things like that.