Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Quebec, several measures have been put in place to help contain the spread of the virus, but one Montreal-area couple feels it was discriminated against.
Linda Rainsforth says she and her partner, Graham Gauthier, were turned away from their local Metro grocery store in Saint-Zotique, Que.
last week because of their age. “As I entered, I went to wash my hands and I was stopped by a woman who works there, an employee, who asked me my age,” Rainsforth said.
The conversation happened in French and after a brief misunderstanding over Rainsforth’s age, the employee told her she couldn’t shop there. “She said ‘if you’re over 70, you can’t come into the store, you’re going to have to shop online,” Rainsforth