Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed is attending Monday's meeting between Canada's premiers and Indigenous leaders for the first time since 2016.
Indigenous leaders will attend a meeting with Canada's premiers on Monday, with health care on the agenda — but also a deteriorating relationship.Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed will be attending Monday's meeting between Canada's premiers and Indigenous leaders. This is the first time he'll meet the premiers since the June 2016 Council of the Federation meeting in the Yukon. This summer's meeting is in Halifax.
"I would say in the last year the relationship with provinces and territories has regressed," Obed said. The council's chair, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, selected health care as the topic of discussion for the two-and-a-half-hour luncheon meeting. Cassidy Caron, head of the Métis National Council, says she plans to urge the premiers to include the leaders of the three main national Indigenous organizations at their meetings.
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.Caron said she hopes to get a consensus from the premiers to push for Métis-specific health benefits at the federal level and change the way the premiers work with national Indigenous leaders.
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