Formal apology follows four years of research the medical profession’s body conducted to uncover evidence of harm, discrimination
The Canadian Medical Association has publicly apologized for its role, and the role of the medical profession, in past and continuing harms to Indigenous people in the health care system.
“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,” Dr. Reimer said. This included medical experimentation on Indigenous children in residential schools, to study the effects of malnourishment and withholding necessary care, and on Indigenous adults, to test experimental tuberculosis vaccines and treatments. Indigenous women, some men and two-spirit people underwent forced sterilization, with some reports suggesting this happened as recently as 2019, Dr. Cashin said.
Alika Lafontaine, who is of Métis, Oji-Cree and Pacific Islander ancestry and served as the CMA’s first Indigenous president in 2022-23, told the audience that the apology marks the first page in a new chapter in the organization’s history.
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