Indigenous leaders had a candid meeting with Canada’s premiers on Monday in Halifax, where they addressed a strained relationship and pushed for more inclusion.
The council’s chair, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, selected health care as the topic of discussion for a scheduled two-and-a-half-hour luncheon meeting.
The conversation ended up lasting three hours, with Indigenous leaders confronting the premiers over tensions in the relationship and calling for more involvement.
Although the leaders didn’t receive any firm commitments, Métis National Council president Cassidy Caron said there was a sense that the premiers understand their position better now.
But complications between the federal and provincial governments over Métis health care remain despite three memorandums of understanding that her organization signed with Ottawa — and have since expired — to advance discussions on the issue.
Obed said he wants to work with the premiers on sorting out jurisdiction issues since more Inuit than ever before now live in urban centres, particularly in Ontario and Alberta.
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Indigenous leaders had a candid meeting with Canada’s premiers on Monday in Halifax, where they addressed a strained relationship and pushed for more inclusion.
The council’s chair, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, selected health care as the topic of discussion for a scheduled two-and-a-half-hour luncheon meeting.
The conversation ended up lasting three hours, with Indigenous leaders confronting the premiers over tensions in the relationship and calling for more involvement.
Although the leaders didn’t receive any firm commitments, Métis National Council president Cassidy Caron said there was a sense that the premiers understand their position better now.
But complications between the federal and provincial governments over Métis health care remain despite three memorandums of understanding that her organization signed with Ottawa — and have since expired — to advance discussions on the issue.
Obed said he wants to work with the premiers on sorting out jurisdiction issues since more Inuit than ever before now live in urban centres, particularly in Ontario and Alberta.
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