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Resolution No. 2009-08-17

Affirmation of Weeneebayko Health Integration Agreement and Treaty Right to Health

WHEREAS the Weeneebayko Area Health Integration Framework Agreement was signed on August 31, 2007; and

WHEREAS it is hoped that the Agreement will improve the health of Mushkegowuk citizens through increased funding and facilities and integrated management, and through increased Mushkegowuk self­government; and

WHEREAS the Agreement includes "non-derogation" wording intended to protect our traditional bilateral nation-to­nation federal relationship and our Treaty right to health;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Weeneebayko health integration process as set out in the Weeneebayko Area Health Integration Framework Agreement of August 2007 should continue to proceed for the purpose of improving the deficient and critically important health care services to our Mushkegowuk people, in accordance with our Treaty right to health;

Resolution No. 2009-08-17, Continued

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Mushkegowuk Assembly recognizes the immediate urgent health needs of our people and urges Mushkegowuk representatives and the governments of Canada and Ontario to work to implement the Agreement as quickly as possible;

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that this Mushkegowuk Assembly reaffirms the historical bilateral, Nation-to-Nation relationship between the Mushkegowuk people and the Government of Canada in all matters, including health care, and this Mushkegowuk Assembly reaffirms that the Health Agreement of 2007 and the Integration Process in no way affects or diminishes our federal Treaty Right to health, as recognized in the Agreement;

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that this Mushkegowuk Assembly directs the Mushkegowuk leadership to develop and implement a long-term position and political strategy to ensure that the federal responsibility and federal funding for Mushkegowuk health care is not reduced in the future, but is increased over the long term and the decades ahead, to make up the long term deficiencies and inequalities in Mushkegowuk health care, and strengthen our bilateral federal relationship.

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