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Getting It Right: What Does The Right To Health Mean for Canadians?

Vanessa Abban |

  “Getting it Right” explores the concept of health as a human right. While Canada’s federal government is legally obligated to ensure that all Canadians have equal opportunities to experience good health, the paper argues that good health in Canada is treated more like a privilege and must be reframed as an inalienable right. We […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.