Talks slated toward building new hospital in Kenora, Ont. – CBC

Kenora MP Bob Nault says Ottawa should help with ‘fiduciary obligations’ to area First Nations

Jan 05, 2017

The Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding encompassing Kenora, Ont. says Ottawa should help with the costs of building a new hospital in the community.

The province is responsible for health care off-reserve, but Bob Nault said any new health care facility in Kenora should be a federal-provincial partnership, to better serve both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the area.

“The pitch to the minister of health federally is simply that 70 per cent of all the clientele who use our facilities are First Nations people,” he said.

“We have a jurisdictional obligation to have quality health care for First Nations.”

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