The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP has launched an investigation into the arrest and detention of an Alberta teenager with autism who was apprehended at a playground in October.
A Quebec woman says her son, who is Black and has autism, is being treated differently because of the colour of his skin after being routinely sent home from school over the last three years due to his behaviour.
MONTREAL A Quebec mother is accusing a school of expelling her autistic son because of the colour of his skin. Marie Isme said her 16-year-old son Brandon-Lee Paris, who is non-verbal, has attended Deux Montagne s L ecole des erables du centre de services scolaire de la Seignerie-des-Milles-Illes for years. The school said they could no longer accommodate him after he developed an obsession with cutting his fingertips and ran away from the school once. But Isme said that s not the truth. “I feel that my son has been discriminated against because of his height, his race,” she said. “They are scared of him.”