MONTREAL MOTHER FELT INTIMIDATED AFTER EATON CENTRE SECURITY GUARDS ASK HER TO STOP BREASTFEEDING

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada- A Montreal woman Isabelle Cote ,has filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission after security guards at the Montreal Eaton Centre asked her to stop breastfeeding her four-month-old son Léopold while she was sitting on a bench at the downtown shopping complex Saturday.

"A female security guard approached me and said I wasn't allowed to breastfeed on that specific bench".

Côté said the supervisor repeated what the security guard had said: she couldn't breastfeed there, and she would have to go to the designated breastfeeding room.

"I was very intimidated — and also surprised that this is still happening in 2022," Côté said.
Côté said she was stunned by the reaction of the security guard and her supervisor.

"You couldn't see my breasts. You couldn't see anything. It's basically you have my baby there," she said.

"On the other hand, in the same mall, you have, like, publicity of women in bikinis showing a lot more than that," she said.

"There's a mixed message being sent," she said. I think it's completely unacceptable that we still see that in 2022."