The worst health care in Canada is federal

Indigenous Peoples deserve to be healthy. Do remember we’re in this era of reconciliation, when Canada says it will make the reparations. NIHB is currently not a reparation. Instead, the program requires atonement for its current inequity.

Indigenous Services Canada, led by Minister Mandy Gull-Masty, should abolish Non-Insured Health Benefits, and instead replace the health program for Inuit and First Nations Peoples with the federal government's plan for bureaucrats, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

July 13, 2026

OTTAWA—Our nurses, doctors, and hospitals are facing a lack of funding support from provincial ministries of health. Ontario appears to be leading the pack for under...

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