WARNING: This video contains details disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised. A year after Joyce Echaquan recorded hospital staff insulting her with racist remarks in her final hours, a Quebec coroner has concluded the Indigenous woman would still be alive if she were Caucasian. Mike Armstrong looks at the findings of the inquiry into Echaquan’s death, the calls to recognize systemic racism within the health-care system, and what her family is planning now.
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