The Metis Nation of Alberta says many of its members have experienced racism when accessing Alberta's health-care system.
"Rather than risk being discriminated against or feeling less than … They’re choosing not to go," said Reagan Bartel, director of health for the Metis Nation of Alberta.
"We need to stop denying it and we need to really reflect on what our part in changing the system is." In the open comments section, several white doctors even expressed feeling racism from Indigenous people and not the other way around.
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