Three years to the day after Joyce Echaquan died in a hail of racist insults at the Joliette Hospital in Lanaudiere, her memory will be honoured at a march in the city on Thursday evening.
Quebec s official opposition wants the province to adopt Joyce s Principle in its bill on improving "cultural safety" in the health and social services network. The principle, created following the death of Joyce Echaquan in 2020, would require Quebec to recognize the existence of systemic racism within its borders.
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The Joyce's Principle Office says the cultural safety bill doesn't go far enough, because of the government's continued refusal to acknowledge the existence of systemic racism.
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