Quebec health-care professionals say the compulsory training developed following Joyce Echaquan's death does little to combat racism in the province's health-care system.
Thousands of people took part in a rally in support of Joyce Echaquan in Trois-Rivieres, Que., last year, demanding 'Justice for Joyce.'
Quebec's ministry of health and social services developed compulsory training for all its health-care workers after a coroner's report found racism and discrimination contributed to her death. CBC News received access to the training from the MSSS. The first module on history and settlement focuses on creation stories, the fur trade, treaties, assimilation policies, the Indian Act, and residential schools.It also delves into the Bering Strait theory — which recent studies have put into doubt — that migration to North America occurred when people walked across a land bridge from Asia thousands of years ago.
"Having non-Indigenous experts telling our story undermines and continues to put Indigenous people at an inferior level." "I think they have good intentions, but you cannot learn all about Indigenous people in one module," said Kitty.
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