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Indigenous leaders, Echaquan family call on Quebec to recognize systemic racism Poll Should there be an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children at a residential school site in Kamloops? Yes People take part in a protest called ‘Justice for Joyce’ in Montreal on Oct. 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes MONTREAL – Atikamekw leaders and Joyce Echaquan’s family called on the Quebec government Tuesday to recognize systemic racism in the health-care system and adopt the Atikamekw community’s solutions to reducing inequities faced by Indigenous patients. They testified during the last week of the coroner’s inquest investigating the death of Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven, who filmed herself on Facebook Live as a nurse and an orderly were heard making derogatory comments toward her shortly before her death last September at a hospital northeast of Montreal.

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