Ottawa needs to invite indigenous people to the table to make strides on improving health care: advocates

'If we don't achieve satisfactory resolutions for indigenous people than we won't be doing that for the rest of Canadians,' says CMA president Dr. Granger Avery.
Canada's Health Minister Jane Philpott, pictured in a Hill scrum.
The federal government must include indigenous people in discussions on improving health care, including ongoing talks with the provinces and territories about long-term funding, to make substantial progress on narrowing the gaping divide in health outcomes between indigenous and non-indigenous com...

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