It’s time for Ottawa to fully fund NIHB program, say Northwest Territories and Nunavut health ministers

Nunavut Health Minister John Main and his Northwest Territories counterpart Lesa Semmler were in Ottawa to discuss viable funding for the federal Non-Insured Health Benefits program, and other changes to other programs funding services for Indigenous People.

After becoming Indigenous services minister on May 13, Mandy Gull-Masty is now in charge of a process to renew agreements for Non-Insured Health Benefits funding. Both Nunavut and the Northwest Territories have been without an agreement since March 31, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade.

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BY TESSIE SANCI

June 16, 2025

After funding for the federal Non-Insured Health Benefits program wasn’t renewed earlier this year, the health ministers for Nunavut and the Northwest Territories say they are considering handing the program back to Ottawa so that it would be fully responsible for both cos...

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