By Morgan Lowrie THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL – An Inuk teenager at a Montreal-area rehabilitation centre who sought help for “excruciating” pain was instead allegedly put in isolation for several hours before he required emergency surgery, an Indigenous rights advocate said Thursday. Nakuset, who uses one name and is the director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, compared the decision to isolate the teen to “torture.” “I can’t imagine how much pain he must have been in,” Nakuset said. Quebec’s youth rights commission has opened an investigation into the incident, which allegedly occurred in April. “According to the information reported, the child was placed in isolation for prolonged periods,” the commission wrote in a news release. “He would not have received the required health care in a timely manner,

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