OTTAWA — Dr. Paulette C. Tremblay, Chief Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO), congratulates Shawn Atleo on his election as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
Atleo won the leadership position after a marathon voting session at the AFN’s Annual General Assembly held this week in Calgary, AB.
“I look forward to working with him on our mutual goal of improving the health and well-being of First Nations in Canada,” Tremblay stated. “I share his vision of unity and partnership – it is by working together that we, as Indigenous Peoples in Canada can enter what National Chief Atleo calls ‘a new chapter’.”
Established in 2000, NAHO is an Aboriginal-designed and –controlled organization dedicated to the advancing the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals, families and communities.
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