Duplessis Orphans Declared Mentally Difficient in Order to Obtain Federal Grant Money
It took until 2001, for the Quebec government to acknowledge the grave injustices afflicted upon the Duplessis Orphans of the 1940’s and 1950. These children were taken out of orphanages and incarcerated in mental institutions not because they were mentally ill because they were not, but because of the lucrative federal government funding at the time.
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