Trudeau announces $8.2B to renew 10-year funding for B.C. First Nations Health Authority

B.C.’s First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) has received $8.2 billion in funding from the federal government to support programming and services for more than 200 First Nations for another 10 years. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu made the announcement at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre on the Squamish Nation Friday. 

“So many of our people, for so many generations, have been … faced with health care that was inhumane,” said Wade Grant, chair of the First Nations Health Council — a governance branch of the First Nation health authority— at the announcement. 

The money is a renewal of funding from when the FNHA was created in 2013. The authority took over

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