The CMA is committed to reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. This includes using our platform to address health inequities and standing with Indigenous Peoples to break down barriers that stand in the way of good health for all.
In an effort to be transparent about our commitment to this work, we have provided below a list of all news releases, statements, reports, charters, codes, recommendations and government submissions related to Indigenous health and reconciliation. This list is updated periodically.
2024:
- CMA to governments: stay focused on health care crisis
- Letter on Bill S-250: An Act to amend the Criminal Code
- Appearance before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Review of Bill S-250
- CMA engages in national conversations in advance of apology to Indigenous Peoples
- Co-creating our future: integrated health human resource planning, reimagined
2023:
- Commentary: Feds must maintain health care momentum in Fall economic statement
- CMA co-author: Lancet Countdown 2023 report
- CMA recognizes National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Advancing reconciliation in health care now
- Health Summit 2023: What Health Care Should Be
- Health workers take care of us. What does it mean to take care of them?
- Challenging anti-Indigenous racism in health care
- CMA 2024 pre-budget submission
- No time to wait: Pursuing progress on health system reform
- CMA Health Summit: What health care should be
- Fireside Chats on Indigenous health: The CMA’s journey of reconciliation
- CMA announces the beginning of an apology process for harms to Indigenous Peoples in health care, part of its commitment to walking the path to reconciliation
- CMA recognizes National Indigenous History Month
- Concept Note: WHA77 Resolution on Climate Change and Health
- On the path of reconciliation: Co-creating the CMA’s Indigenous health goal
- Fireside chats on Indigenous health: ‘Cultural safety can happen today’
- CMA Impact 2040: Our strategy
- Policy document: Assessing Canada’s Health Accords 2000–2023: Buying time or buying change?
- CMA parliamentary submission to the standing committee on social policy, Bill 60, Your Health Act, 2023 and Pan-Canadian licensure
- Backgrounder: developing CMA’s Impact 2040 Indigenous health goal
2022:
- Recommendations for federal action to address Canada’s health care crisis
- CMA 2023 Pre-budget Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance
- Appearance before the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAN): Administration and accessibility of Indigenous Peoples to the Non-Insured Benefits Program
- CMA Recommendations on Canada’s First National Adaptation Strategy
- Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems in Canada
- CMA Statement on the Governance of Health Information: A patient-partnered health information governance framework
- CMA co-author: Lancet Countdown 2022 Report
- CMA committed to truth and reconciliation, improving health outcomes of Indigenous peoples
- Co-creating Indigenous health goals with the CMA’s Guiding Circle
- CMA condemns forced and coerced sterilization (in response to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights’ report The Scars that We Carry: Forced and Coerced Sterilization of Persons in Canada - Part II (sencanada.ca)
- Dr. Alika Lafontaine to lead CMA in 2022-23
- CMA reflects on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
2021:
- Policy Endorsement of Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
- CMA co-author: Lancet Countdown 2021 Report
- In wake of devastating discovery, CMA joins call for change
- On National Indigenous Peoples Day, CMA president reflects on harm done
- New film exposes impacts of colonialism and systemic racism in Canadian health care
- Inaugural address: Dr. Katharine Smart, CMA President
- It’s time to take responsibility and walk together on the path of reconciliation
2020:
- Policy Endorsement: Indigenous Ally Toolkit
- Policy Endorsement: The Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework
- CMA co-author: Lancet Countdown 2020 Report
- On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we pause and reflect on the perspectives of Indigenous leaders
- An open letter to Joyce Echaquan’s family, community of Manawan, Atikamekw Nation and Indigenous Peoples
- CMA President Statement on Turpel-Lafond Report
2019:
2018:
- CMA Code of Ethics and Professional explicitly states a commitment to “collaborative and respectful relationships with Indigenous patients and communities through efforts to understand and implement the recommendations relevant to health care made in the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada” CMA Code of Ethics and Professionalism
- CMA co-author: Lancet Countdown 2018 Report
- On National Indigenous Peoples Day, let's celebrate the achievements of our Indigenous physicians
- CMA to support communities of interests to spark change in Indigenous health, gender equity, marginalized communities, MAiD and substance use
- Supporting Winnipeg’s Indigenous communities and promoting a holistic approach to women’s health; the CMA Foundation gives back to Winnipeg
2012:
- CMA develops a policy document on “Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Role for the Medical Profession”
2011:
- CMA Board endorses a joint policy statement with the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada on the “Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Realities and Access to Services for First Nations, Inuit and Metis in Canada”