Lafontaine: Philpott understood that truth comes before reconciliation

I first met Jane Philpott on a cold winter morning in 2015, not long after she was sworn in to her first cabinet post as minister of health. I was working with three Saskatchewan First Nations to address the opioid crisis, and it was their hope that I could communicate the reality on the ground to the newly minted minister. Sitting around the table were Philpott, her political staff and senior bureaucrats.
Knowing her background as a physician, I framed our issues around a lack of quality improv