‘With so much as risk, we couldn’t just wait for help:' Indigenous communities and COVID-19 GlobeDebate
Chantelle Richmond is an associate professor at Western University and a member of The Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19. Heather Castleden is an associate professor at Queen’s University. Chelsea Gabel is an associate professor at McMaster University. All three are Canada Research Chair holders in topics related to Indigenous health in Canada.
The first and most hopeful piece of this narrative is that Indigenous peoples are not mere victims in their experiences of inequity . Since March, the federal government has made $1.3B available to Indigenous communities to support COVID-19 efforts. However impressive it sounds, the reality is that this money is woefully inadequate to address Indigenous needs amidst the pandemic, let alone the health, economic and social infrastructure that is lacking in so many communities.
For the Métis in the prairies, cases have skyrocketed. Due to the jurisdictional ambiguity between provincial and federal levels of government support with respect to the Métis, there has been no plan, no resources, no programs, and no supply chain. Thus, Métis communities took it upon themselves to purchase personal protective equipment and other medical supplies for their communities.
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