The CMA has apologized for harms to Indigenous people. How do we prevent those harms, and other forms of systemic discrimination, going forward?
Elder Martha Peet during a moment of silence as the Canadian Medical Association held a ceremony at the Victoria Conference Centre in B.C., on Sept. 18 to formally apologize for harms to Indigneous people.A proper apology begins with admitting your wrongs, and doing so sincerely and with humility.: “The Canadian Medical Association is deeply sorry for the harms First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples have experienced and continue to experience in the Canadian health system.
More importantly, the CMA promised to do better in the future. And not just with a litany of platitudes, but a well-thought-out plan, overseen by anAs Dr. Alika Lafontaine, a past president of the CMA said: “The weight of history must be shared.” Canada’s physicians, and the health system more broadly, have a lot to be sorry for and ashamed of. Take, for example, theconducted on children and adults in both Indian hospitals and residential schools – everything from nutritional studies that involved starving children, to using Indigenous people as guinea pigs toof Indigenous women to prevent them from having more children, a practice that was still being documented as late as 2019.
The first step of reconciliation is speaking the truth, no matter how ugly. Canadians are not nearly knowledgeable enough about this shameful history.filmed the racist abuse and mockery she endured in a Quebec hospital before dying; that same year, Lillian Vanasse struggled to breathe in an Alberta hospital but wasBeyond these high-profile cases of mistreatment, there is much systemic neglect.
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