Quebec government has stalled on dealing with systemic racism: Joyce’s Principle Office

The director of the Joyce’s Principal Office says Quebec must face the racism in its public systems in the aftermath of a prison physician has been charged with failing to provide the necessities of life to an Innu man in a Quebec City detention centre. “We mustn’t delude ourselves,” Jennifer Petiquay-Dufresne told APTN News in a French interview. “If we start making changes now, it won’t be tomorrow morning that Indigenous people will no longer be afraid or experience that discrimination, but the longer we wait, the more we delay the moment when people will feel safe seeking services.” Philip…