Quebec coroner orders public inquiry into coronavirus deaths at long-term care homes “I must question everything everything linked to these deaths, including state and administrative structures that are supposed to protect residents of seniors homes,” she said.“This is the first very public proceeding in which we will really be able to ask the key decision makers the questions and to really shed some factual light about what went on,” said Patrick Martin-Ménard, a lawyer representing family members of people who died at Herron.The list of witnesses slated to testify on the first day of the hearing included a Montreal police officer and Montreal’s director of public health.