Morning Brief: Feds plan to co-develop new Indigenous health legislation
By iPolitics. Published on Jan 28, 2021 5:59am
The meetings on anti-Indigenous racism in health care are being held after the death of Joyce Echaquan in a Quebec hospital last year. (Wikimedia Commons)
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New Indigenous health laws to be announced: The government will announce plans to co-develop new legislation to overhaul Indigenous health care, the CBC reports. The announcement will follow two days of virtual discussions on how to eliminate anti-Indigenous racism in the health care system, and will aim to ensure Indigenous control over the development and delivery of services.