From cbc.ca

Canada's health minister, the province of Ontario and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation have signed a deal on health care, a "landmark" agreement they say will begin the process of decolonizing the provision of care in the province's north.

The three governments agreed to a series of principles that any First Nation-led health-care system must adhere to, while vowing to pool money to better address poor health outcomes in Ontario's northern and remote reserves.

It is the first step in a longer process of turning over health care in northern Ontario to First Nations themselves, and allowing them to decide how best to spend money, staff nursing stations and provide care for people in need, the health ministers said Monday. Currently, the delivery of health care for status Indians is largely the responsibility of the federal government.

The agreement comes after a particularly brutal spate of youth suicides on reserves in the far reaches of the province.

Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of NAN, an organization that represents 49 reserves in northern Ontario, said First Nations used to have their own systems of care, and it worked well for generations.

"Because of the last 150 years, because of the colonial history of this country, many of [our systems] have been broken," he said.

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