A hospital orderly who was captured on video criticizing Joyce Echaquan shortly before her death testified today that she meant no harm with her comments.

The orderly, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was fired from the Centre hospitalier régional de Lanaudière in Joliette, Que., after the incident and testified about what happened at a coroner’s inquest Wednesday in Trois-Rivières.

Coroner Géhane Kamel is investigating the death of Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven who filmed herself being insulted and mocked by female staff not