Lorie Martin and Harriet Coveyduck

Martin: Her daughter Lorie Martin came to visit her on Sunday, and says she was stunned to find her mother facing the window and crying, according to CTV. Coveyduck explained to her daughter that she had just asked a worker who entered her room for help and that led to an argument, with the worker eventually refusing to help the woman. Harriet Coveyduck, an English-speaking Irish immigrant who suffers from emphysema, sought medical care at Verdun Hospital last week when she contracted the flu. She yelled at her: ‘If you can't speak French, we're not going to offer you any services’, Martin told CTV Montreal. That when she told me: ‘This is a French hospital and English isn't a priority’, Martin said. Martin, who is fully bilingual, said she marched down the hallway to demand to see a supervisor and to ask why her mother had been treated that way. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.