Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy
Alternate Title
Policy Study (C.D. Howe Institute) ; 43
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John Richards
no. 43
Prime Minister Paul Martin met with premiers and Aboriginal leaders to discuss plans to improve health, education, housing, and economic opportunities for Aboriginal people in Canada.
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Authors note that Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy does not address social determinants of health (childhood environments, gender, Indigenous status, income, education and occupation) as root causes of poor diet quality; they suggest that a reduction of diet inequities will require policy change.
Discusses four issues: housing; guardianship and decision making; protection; wills and estates.
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