Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that. I changed my schedule to be here in person because health is paramount, especially long-term care, as it's a lot of our traditional knowledge from our elders, but it's also the system and the policy framework. I welcome any opportunity to share some of the w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The impact of intergenerational trauma starts at an early age for too many of our young people. They carry that, and it impacts their health. It impacts the length of their lives. They're living a much higher-risk lifestyle. Their health standards, their nutrition, and their acce

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's institutions that haven't been friendly to our people, like hospitals. The Fort Qu'Appelle Indian hospital was a place only for Indians back in the 1930s, and that transferred to the All Nations' Healing Hospital. That's what we've been working toward. It's that institution

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's $6.9 million. We have health care initiatives with the first nations and Inuit health branch of Health Canada for some of the pilot projects, some of our women's health centres, and some of the innovations that we're leading. There's also the provincial system for acute care

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's the other level of policy framework in that legislative aspect, and that's what we're working hard on, on the indigenous side, through our first nations and our governance structures. We're bringing that forward. It is true, there's the UN Declaration on the Rights of I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a long story, so I'm going to try to keep it succinct. On the issue of studies, the data is there. The data has been there for decades upon decades about health indicators and the challenges of the system, the access, the complexity, the jurisdictional divide. The data is

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do deliver home care programs through our community health services, but there are still challenges. There are various ministries at a provincial level. Then there are different requirements or eligibility aspects and different perimeters around funding and what's eligibl

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would be to recognize our rights as indigenous peoples to lead the policy-making process and we will come forward with policy solutions that are much more effective in changing the long-term health indicators for our people. We'll do it because we understand our ways, but we'r

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon to the committee. I appreciate the invitation to come and address you on one of the foundational and critical matters of quality of life, and that's public health care. That's an issue we take very seriously, and we are taking a lot of mea