Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, first I'd like to recognize the fact that most communities that I've been in, all the hospitals, all the communities I've been in do make efforts and I think are very sensitive to the culture where they operate. But there has never been a clear funding arrangement and a program recognition. It's been done because it makes good sense. It's been done just as part of daily practice. If you travel to Whitehorse and you look at the health centre there or the hospital there, you see that they recognize that there's value and a benefit to the combination of traditional medicine and practice with western medicine and practice that allows people that may not feel as comfortable as they could without that support to be more comfortable, to be better treated. They deal with a lot of the translation issues, the traditional food issues, the combination of practices, especially when it comes to a time of severe sickness or palliative care. So I think it's an overdue recognition that there's more than one way that medicine can be delivered, and that it's been done other ways for thousands of years, and we're looking at trying to incorporate that practice into the standard western practice, the health model that we currently have. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 19th, 2006
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