Legault sorry for saying racism against Indigenous people at hospital is 'settled'
CTV
CAQ leader François Legault apologized to Joyce Echaquan's husband Carol Dubé on Tuesday after suggesting the problems at Joliette hospital, where the Atikamekw woman died, were fixed.
Legault told reporters he never meant to offend when he said during a televised leaders debate last week that the racism situation at the hospital in Joliette, Que., is "settled."
Looking into the camera during a campaign stop in Orford, Que., in the province's Eastern Townships, Legault directly addressed Carol Dubé, husband of the late Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman who died in hospital in September 2020.
"I offended you and I sincerely apologize," the incumbent premier said, adding that he wants to meet with Dubé after the election. "I can only imagine how hard it must be, what you went through."
Echaquan, a 37-year-old mother of seven, filmed herself on Facebook Live as a nurse and an orderly were heard making derogatory comments toward her shortly before her death at a hospital northeast of Montreal.
