By Jacob Serebrin THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL-Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault faced criticism from his political rivals over the weekend after he said members of an Indigenous community want to reopen a semantic debate rather than fix racism problems at a nearby hospital. Legault’s Saturday remarks came after members of the Atikamekw community reproached the incumbent premier for saying that racism problems have been solved at the Joliette, Que. hospital where Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman, filmed nurses mocking her as she lay dying. “They want to go back to the issue of systemic racism,” Legault told reporters in response to public statements by the Conseil des Atikamekw de Manawan, the Conseil de la nation Atikamekw and Echaquan’s husband Carol Dube. “So they want to have a debate about

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