Health authority fires Quebec nurses accused of mocking Indigenous patient

The nurses allegedly referred to an Indigenous patient as "Joyce" in reference to Joyce Echaquan -- an Atikamekw woman who filmed herself being mocked by health-care workers as she lay dying in a Joliette, Que., hospital in September. That video was shared around the world.

Barbir added in the news release that "discriminatory, racist and intimidating behaviour is unacceptable" and needs to be denounced. Those recommendations were rejected by the provincial government in November because Joyce's Principle makes reference to "systemic racism." Benoit Charette, appointed as Quebec's minister responsible for the fight against racism in February, has denied the existence of systemic racism in Quebec.

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