Six Nations Wellbeing Committee is putting pressure on Indigenous Services Canada to reverse its decision to reduce funding for the Health Transformation Project. Six Nations Elected Council passed several recommendations from the Wellbeing Committee at its General Council meeting on August 27, including advocating to extend the Health Transformation Project funding for two years. The extension is necessary because Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) reduced the funding allocated to Health Transformation by 50 per cent. “It’s a shared funding between the Ministry of Health Ontario and ISC and we’re requesting to get an increase back to the way it was. In addition we need more funds for research and staffing as well,” Councillor Greg Frazer said. The Canadian government has been working to transfer health services to First Nations for many…
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