Global News published this video item, entitled “Assembly of First Nations chief says systemic racism in Canada’s health-care system is a fact” – below is their description.
Late last week, the federal government met with Indigenous leaders to talk about systemic racism in the health care system — after an Indigenous woman was subjected to degrading racist comments as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital late last month.
West Block host Mercedes Stephenson speaks with National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Perry Bellegarde about the meeting and the next steps to fix the problem.
Chief Bellegarde also addresses what needs to be done to resolve a worsening dispute between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishers on the east coast.
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Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.