Racism kills, we demand justice

We will neither understand nor eradicate racism without the courage to examine what produced it, and question what perpetuates it. The time to face our duty to memory, truth, conscience, and justice is now.

Racism is made more deadly when it is denied and trivialized from the highest level, writes former governor general Michaëlle Jean.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY Michaëlle Jean

October 9, 2020

Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman, died on Sept. 28 under a barrage of racist slurs at a hospital in Joliette, Que. The hateful words that she was able to record in her final moments, while crying out for help, visibly plunged her into a deep state of distr...

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