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Simply scan this site on your smart phone.RSS FeedsUsing an RSS Reader you can wangle most recent stories and other feeds posted on this network.SNetwork Recent StoriesiBrowse All Sites%Contact UsXClose Home » Newswire » National Seniors Day: Celebrating and Honouring Métis Nation Seniors National Seniors Day: Celebrating and Honouring Métis Nation Seniors by pmnationtalk on October 1, 201813 Views October 1, 2018, Ottawa ON: Statement from President Chartier on today’s National Seniors Day. National Seniors Day is an occasion to publicly honour and gloat the profound contributions of Métis Nation seniors in Canada. Métis senior citizens hold a prominent and highly respected role in Métis life. They are our traditional teachers and siphon the knowledge of our Métis history, culture, language and our relationships– knowledge and values that pinpoint who we are as a Nation and as a people. They are our vital connection to our past and their wisdom continues to inspire and guide younger generations and our Nation as a whole. As such, we hold our Métis Elders and senior citizens in utmost upper regard. The contributions of Métis Nation seniors, including the invaluable contributions of Métis Veterans during WWII, are many and reach wideness generations. Indeed, Métis Nation seniors, those with us and those who have passed, have been instrumental in shaping this country. They protract to impact all aspects of Canadian society, through their public service including the Canadian Forces, the legal and other professions, in business, the arts, and in society at large. Despite these contributions, Métis Nation seniors often squatter a unconfined deal of unnecessary hardship and discrimination. National Seniors Day is therefore moreover a day to shine a spotlight on the plight of our increasingly vulnerable seniors. Too many elderly Métis polity members are suffering physical, emotional and financial hardship, living in poverty, experiencing supplies insecurity, homelessness, and struggling with ill-health, social and geographic isolation and inadequate housing. The historic exclusion of the Métis Nation from wangle to federal Indigenous programming and services such as coverage for prescription drugs, medical transportation and other non-insured health services, has exacerbated problems that Métis seniors are facing. We see the results in the statistics and through the stories we hear on a daily understructure from Métis citizens wideness the Homeland. It is heartbreaking to hear, repeatedly, that many Métis seniors are going without their prescription medications considering they simply cannot sire to buy them, or rationing their medications in order to buy food. The Canada-Métis Nation Accord signed on April 13, 2017 commits all Parties to a process of reconciliation and a nation-to-nation, government-to-government relationship and identifies a number of priorities for increasingly firsthand whoopee including housing, homelessness, poverty reduction and health, among others – all hair-trigger focus areas for improving the lives of vulnerable Métis Nation seniors. The subsequent signing of a Canada-Metis Nation Housing Sub-Accord on July 20, 2018, the associated federal investment of $500 million over 10 years in Métis Nation housing, and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on a Canada-Métis Nation Health and Wellness Accord on August 21, 2018, are all positive developments for Métis Nation seniors. We squint forward to standing these discussions and to putting in place tangible strategies that will modernize the lives of our Métis senior citizens in the firsthand future. It is in this context that today, on National Seniors Day, we invite all Canadians to gloat the significant achievements and contributions of Métis Nation seniors, including our Métis Veterans, and to join with us in up-and-coming the ideals of inclusiveness, recognition and equality in the treatment of the Métis senior citizens in Canada. NT5 Share this:TwitterFacebookPrintMoreLinkedIn Clients:No Clients Categories: Arts & Culture, Indigenous This vendible comes from NationTalk: http://nationtalk.ca The permalink for this story is: http://nationtalk.ca/story/national-seniors-day-celebrating-and-honouring-metis-nation-seniors Comments are closed. Network Home About Us Register Newswire Job Board Tenders Events Purchase Partners © 2005 - 2018 NationTalk. Contact Us Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions NationTalk Partners & Sponsors LearnIncreasingly