IS-1017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Norway House, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Raf Medical Services
11 Oct 2018
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Chapter 13: health and well-being in canada: jordan"s principle. jordan was a young boy from norway house. While federal and manitoba governments debated his medical costs, he died two years later with the issues unresolved. Canada"s charter of rights and freedoms forbids discrimination. Many of the services jordon needed would be paid for without question for a white manitoban, or off-reserve native resident. It was jordan"s living on-reserve that caused the bureaucracy to choke. That is discrimination, pure and simple: poor native health. The issue is long-standing and timely: native people"s healthcare needs are regularly overlooked. This trends date back to the first reliable data on native health in. The problem is political: healthcare costs are rising. No one is willing to accept responsibility for native health. A second issue is rooted in history: specifically, native communities never recovered from european diseases (hiv, diabetes) A canadian human right tribunal in january 2016 ordered canada to end discrimination.
