Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller on racism in the health-care system
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Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman from Manawan, Que., recorded nurses taunting her as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital last month. We talk to Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, who has called a high-level meeting of federal ministers and Indigenous leaders to address racism in the health-care system.
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