François Legault says he didn’t intend to offend Joyce Echaquan’s family when he said the “problem that happened at the Joliette hospital with Mrs. Joyce is now resolved” during last week’s debate.
The CAQ leader and incumbent premier was responding to criticism about his refusal to recognize systemic racism.
Legault insisted while campaigning in Orford, Que., Tuesday that he never intended to harm Echaquan’s husband, Carol Dubé, and recognized there are still problems to be solved.
“I can only imagine how hard it must be, what you went through,” Legault said. “There are racist people in Quebec, particularly toward Indigenous people. We have to fight that. We can’t accept that.”
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