Montreal Gazette
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📍 QC
Jul 30, 2026
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'Not news to me': Minister didn't see need to inform public of deaths of kids under Batshaw's care
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QUEBEC POLITICS
‘Not news to me’: Minister didn’t see need to inform public of deaths of kids under Batshaw’s care
“Children die in the neonatal unit every day” without their deaths being reported, Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant says.
"I've been on the subject since I came back into the position" as social services minister, Lionel Carmant says of the March deaths of three children while under the care of the Batshaw agency. (John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette files)
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Jack Wilson
July 29, 2026 at 12:40 p.m.
Last Updated: July 29, 2026 at 9:30 p.m.
Quebec’s social services minister s…
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