Thank you for this reminder1 that health is so much more than health care, and is inevitably bound up in relationships. Perhaps the current unmet needs among Canada’s Indigenous people are a symptom of a particular kind of cultural narcissism, one that deems the well-being of certain kinds of people to be more important than that of others — based on cultural identity. I hope we can build bridges, both interpersonal and structural, that will embody mutual respect and innovative approaches, between colonial and Indigenous societies.
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Competing interests: None declared.