Sidhartha Banerjee
Quebec deputy premier and Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault speaks at a news conference on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, at the legislature in Quebec City. The regional health authority in Quebec's Laurentians says a job posting last year seeking a white female patient attendant is unacceptable and that it has opened an internal probe into the matter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
March 17, 2021 - 12:35 PM
MONTREAL - A regional health authority north of Montreal says it is investigating after it was revealed one of its job postings last year for a patient attendant required that candidates be white women.
Montreal La Presse reported Wednesday that health officials in St-Eustache, Que., northwest of Montreal, posted a job 10 timeslast fall seeking only white female applicants to work with a patient who allegedly objected to being treated by non-whites.