A cancer patient must make an 800-kilometre round trip every week to reach a hospital with fewer English-language services.
A woman ends up telling her mother she has terminal cancer — because her doctor couldn’t say it in English.
An elderly woman misses a hospital appointment because no one there can direct her in English, and is rushed back the next day in a diabetic emergency.
As The Gazette's Andy Riga reports, these are among the situations recounted during a Senate investigation that found access to health care in English for Quebec anglophones remains “tenuous.”
