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Trudeau declares funding boost for Indigenous health at townhall event NICK LABA
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the North Shore on Friday to announce an increase in federal funding for Indigenous-led health care, and to have direct conversations with First Nations members at a townhall event.
Along with Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, Trudeau visited the Chief Joe Mathias Centre on X̱wemelch’stn (the Capilano 5 Reserve), where he was welcomed by elected councillors from Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and executive staff from B.C.’s First Nations Health Authority and First Nations Health Council. Speaking to a crowd of Indigenous attendees and the media, Trudeau declared the 10-year renewal of the British Columbia Tripartite Framework Agreement on First Nations Health Governance, a legal agreement that transfers the federal government’s role in designing and delivering health programs to First Nations in B.C. to the FNHA. Currently, the federal government reportedly invests around $5 billion in Indigenous health care each year. Through the 2023 budget, Trudeau said the federal government is upping health funding to provinces and territories by $196.1 billion over 10 years, while investing an additional $2
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes questions from the audience during a health-care funding announcement and townhall meeting held at the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation’s) Chief Joe Mathias Centre Friday. NICK LABA / NSN billion over that time through a new Indigenous Health Equity Fund to help ensure access to quality and culturally safe health-care services. Renewal of the B.C. agreement – which sees $8.2 billion going to Indigenous health in the province over 10 years – is
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about improving delivery and meeting the unique health needs of First Nations communities, Trudeau said. “Things like more community-based approaches to health care, recognition of the intergenerational trauma that impacts Continued on page 34
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