Better health care, infrastructure, and services for Northern Ontarians

We will push for more family doctors and nurses in every community, to close the funding and infrastructure gaps for health care services in small rural northern communities, and ensure that Canada’s first independent medical university, NOSM, has the funding it needs. New Democrats will continue to work with Indigenous peoples to fully implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, all 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and all Calls for Justice from the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This includes fixing the broken First Nations children’s program (Jordan’s Principle), which has a 140,000-case backlog, by investing in more staff and better case management, and working with other levels of government to ensure equitable access to health services and educational supports for all First Nations children.