Quebec youth care agency not serious about fighting racism: Indigenous advocate
Youth and Family Centres has received recommendations from Indigenous communities and the province’s human rights commission, the agency isn’t implementing them.
And, she said, Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s refusal to recognize the existence of systemic racism gives people at government institutions permission to ignore the realities around them. Nakuset says that while Quebec’s human and youth rights commission has opened an investigation, the watchdog shouldn’t have waited until after the incident received media attention. Niemi, meanwhile, said that the investigation is being carried out under the Youth Protection Act rather than the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; therefore, he said, details of the incident will not be made public and the watchdog has no power to ensure its recommendations are implemented.
Alachi said that in the majority of the investigations under the Youth Protection Act, changes are made while the probe is ongoing. She said that while young people involved in cases can’t be identified, recommendations can be made public.
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