Quebec’s human rights commission will investigate the deaths of two young children last weekend in Wendake.
However, the commission specified Tuesday that the investigation will not be public.
The investigation comes after it was discovered there had already been reports involving the children flagged to the province’s youth protection services.
The task of the commission is to check if the department of youth protection fulfilled its mandate and whether the children’s rights were infringed upon in this case.
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Lionel Carmant, Quebec’s deputy minister of health and social services also ordered an external investigation into the children’s death.
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More specifically the aim is to shed light on why the children’s files were flagged to youth protections services but allegedly not retained.
“The information I have obtained in connection with this file prompts me to request this investigation,” Carmant said in a written statement.
“I want to check that the interventions in this file were carried out in an adequate manner. I cannot allow such events to be repeated, I have said this many times.”
The report is expected on Dec. 5, 2020.
A man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the deaths.
— With files from Global’s Annabelle Olivier
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