If Indigenous health is an expected outcome of reconciliation, we’re in trouble

The Non-Insured Health Benefits program covers less than provincial and territorial health care, even though the Canada Health Act stipulates that Canadians will have roughly equivalent care across the country.
Minister of Women Rechie Valdez, left, Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty, and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, with other Liberal MPs in Ottawa on Oct 29. If the Non-Insured Health Benefits program is such a good program, then MPs and senators should use it to cover their health care services, writes Rose LeMay.

OTTAWA—A First Nations individual in a hospital in Alberta had his hair cut off and items of his bundle, including an eagle feather, thrown into the garbage. The College of Registered Nurses of Alberta investigated, and told the family that

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