Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 18 : Health (18-24)

Commitment to Indigenous consultation

February 14, 2018

Going forward, recognition of rights will guide all government relations with Indigenous peoples,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons… The new legislation and policy will be developed, he said, in consultations with the First Nations, Inuit and Métis as well as the provinces and territories and non-Indigenous Canadians that will be led by Carolyn Bennett, the Minister for Crown-Indigenous Relations and supported by Jody Wilson-Raybould, the Justice Minister…Or if a group of First Nations wanted to take control of their health-care system, the government would start from the premise that they have the right to do so.”