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Dr Jane Philpott, Queens Health & Nate Erskine-Smith MP Beaches-East-York,

Nate, If you feel this Comment warrants her review, please forward to Dr. Philpott.

'MEDICINE' (Latin 'medium' = 'middle' = 'balancing of all parts of human experience & health')

Thank you for this discussion. I'd like to add to these goals of Universal Access to Health, culturally in all humanity's worldwide 'Indigenous' (Latin 'Self-generating') heritage, through supporting what people in our families & communities are already doing from the bottom-up. As we design Universal systems, we must start with individuals & their intimate circles family & community networks of intimate, intergenerational, female-male, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. Holistic Systems are best understood as Cultural 'Fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') empowered from the Bottom-up as all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors cultivated for 10s of 1000s of years before Oligarch led violence, invasion, genocide, occupation & colonization of the past 7000 years since Babylon's fall from grace.

'INDIGENOUS' (Latin 'self-generating') CULTURAL HEALTH, (as we are). I've devoted 60 of my 71 years of age to solidarity work & living with 1st Nations across Canada, USA 1st Nations & worldwide.

INSTITUTIONALIZED MEDICAL SPECIALTIES; I come from a family of with many generations of Medical MD, PhD, Dentist, Nurses & Health Science researchers. I'm trained & diploma into Special-Education institutional care for those labelled as 'intellectually-handicapped' as well as trained & certified in as a First Responder in Industrial First Aid. My volunteerism & work has been in specialized Workshops, large Residences, Group-homes, Specialized Treatment Centres & psychiatric Hospital as well as family, home & community care. The issue with Oligarch 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') commanded institutions is the inappropriate scale & disconnected relationships, applied to most interactions, be it health, law, education, economy, housing etc. All humanity's indigenous ancestors employed the ~100 (50-150) person level of intimate relations for knowledgeful & appropriate institution.

REPAIRING IATROGENESIS WITH CULTURE

On average Institutional clients see 5 shift workers & 3 specialists/day totaling 2922 changes of the guard per year. No one in these systems has continuity of knowledge nor much of reciprocal relations with the people they’re supposedly serving, hence over-reliance on drugs & such as Behaviour-Modification programs. Global institutional, educational, administrative & government administration costs total between 200,000$ to 300,000$ CDN per person/year. These figures equally apply to the many 10s of millions of elderly in Old-Folks-Homes, Youth-Service & those hospitalized.

Neither do top-down institutional systems have connection with LOCAL BIOSPHERE KNOWLEDGE JOINED WITH INTIMATE PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE KEEPERS, who culturally & systematically help people they intimately know in rebalancing health through plants, nutrition, relationships, lifestyle & alignment in harmony with each person's Vision-Quest (personally identified life mission).

IATROGENESIS (Thanks to Wikipedia) is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence.[1][2][3] First used in this sense in 1924,[1] the term was introduced to sociology in 1976 by Ivan Illich, alleging that industrialized societies impair quality of life by overmedicalizing life.[4] Iatrogenesis may thus include mental suffering via medical beliefs or a practitioner's statements.[4][5][6] Some iatrogenic events are obvious, like amputation of the wrong limb, whereas others, like drug interactions, can evade recognition. In a 2013 estimate, about 20 million negative effects from treatment had occurred globally.[7] In 2013, an estimated 142,000 persons died from adverse effects of medical treatment, up from an estimated 94,000 in 1990

EXISTING LOCAL CULTURAL MEDICAL TREATMENT

Today, 70% of people both worldwide & on Turtle-Island / North-America live in Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes where 20% of residents are Extended-families living intentionally in proximity & with privacy for social & economic collaboration. Extended families are the largest Community & health service provider everywhere, providing some 2 trillion dollars of the most individually appropriate caring, sharing, food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health services typically based in plant based medicines & life-style healing/year. Typically Multihome extended families dwell in multiple private apartment, townhouse, village dwellings with both personal & family privacy, but as well walking proximity for ease of reciprocal interaction & collaboration.

The average size of Multihome is 32 dwelling units = ~100 people, but the definition of Multihome, as a cultural or economic unit/building runs from 50 to 150 people or about ~ 20 to 50 dwelling units. What human-kind, even under Oligarch tyranny, has recreated architecturally are the basic 'economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') organizational units of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors in the Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse, Kanata-village & many other ~100 person variations of 'community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') planning & implementation. ~100 people are an intimate 'FRACTAL' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') where people know each other over lifetimes & multiple generations even 1000s of years in indigenous record-keeping practices.

LIFETIME & INTERGENERATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RECORD KEEPING upon the Graphic pictorial Character Languages (eg. Chinese characters, Hieroglyphics, Petroglyphs), related Sign Languages & Oral Histories as all existed on all continents, documenting personal, family & community lives & events for 10s of 1000s of years. In order to institutionalize their brutal control, 'Exogenous' (L 'other-generated') Oligarch commanded & controlled colonial empire period starting 7000 years ago in Babylon implemented burnings & destruction of the 'ancient indigenous fractal record system within each Multihome & village worldwide. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? (Based in all humanity's worldwide 'Great-good-way-of-kindness')

Web-based Community-Economy software, with internet & web-based advertising for individual & business grouped Talents, goods, services, resources & dreams.

Individuals manage their own accounts with PERSONAL DISCLOSURE CHOICES within each ~100 person Multihome & neighbourhood Circular-economy as well as broader advertising & communication. For example, an elder person with their talent, goods or services may choose to have an interlocutor or community business who will handle communications & transaction. http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-COMMUNITY-CIRCULAR-ECONOMY software helps recirculate time, resources & money within a community among its members many times for full employment for all:

A) CATALOGUE intake form. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership

B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames

C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy

D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through Both-sides-Now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues aka COUNCIL PROCESS for creating understanding, Constructive Agreements, Contracts & Conflict Resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues

DouglasJack@IndigeneCommunity.info LaSalle-Montreal, Kahnawake-North

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How about you deal with the mess that is the liberal party and its leadership

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