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National Indigenous leaders to meet premiers amid deteriorating relationship – CBC

Jul 15, 2024

Focus of meeting is health care, but Indigenous leaders plan to raise issue of respect

Indigenous leaders will attend a meeting with Canada’s premiers on Monday, with health care on the agenda — but also a deteriorating relationship.

This is the first time Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed will meet provincial and territorial premiers since the June 2016 Council of the Federation meeting in the Yukon. This summer’s meeting is being held in Halifax.

Since then, all of the provinces and territories have elected new leadership, and Obed said he’s returning to deliver a message.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/national-indigenous-leaders-premiers-meeting-1.7263310

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