OBJECTIVES Despite attempts, policy silences continue to create barriers to addressing the healthcare needs of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The purpose of this article is to answer the question, if what we have in Canada is an Aboriginal health policy patchwork that fails to address inequities, then what would a Healthy Aboriginal Health Policy framework look like? METHODS The data collect...

tection and the expansion of provincial health information systems provided the optimal context for developing health information access and privacy legislation. Manitoba’s Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) was thus enacted on December 11, 1997. PHIA was the first law of its kind in Canada and was developed with a view to interpreting internationally accepted fair information principles fo...