Quebec election: Legault sorry for saying racism against Indigenous people at hospital is ‘settled’ – Global News

by ahnationtalk on September 20, 202259 Views

September 20, 2022

Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault is apologizing for offending the husband of an Indigenous woman who filmed nurses mocking her as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital.

Legault says he never meant to offend when he said during a televised leaders debate last week that the situation at the hospital in Joliette, Que., is settled.

The incumbent premier told reporters during an election campaign stop in Orford, Que., Tuesday that he was trying to say that significant improvement has been made since Joyce Echaquan’s death in September 2020.

He says he knows Indigenous people in Quebec still face racism.

Echaquan’s husband, Carol Dubé, and Atikamekw leaders condemned Legault’s comments in the days following the debate.

Read More: https://globalnews.ca/news/9142303/quebec-election-legault-joyce-echaquan/

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