The teen's experience last April is part of a pattern of discrimination toward Indigenous youth staying in the care of Quebec's Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, advocates say.
The Native Women s Shelter of Montreal and the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations are calling on Quebec to investigate after they say an Inuk youth was placed in solitary confinement at a youth detention facility.
There are 238 local police officers in Saguenay, and only one is not white. Last spring, the police service was tasked with hiring 15 new officers, but only 10 were brought into the fold.
Terrebonne says it isn t going to accept recommendations made by the Quebec Human Rights Commission after it passed a racial profiling decision against the municipality.