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The Dollar That Turned Orphans into Patients: Duplessis' Quiet Theft
The Dollar That Turned Orphans into Patients: Duplessis' Quiet Theft
Fear and outrage: in 1940s Quebec a bureaucratic twist turned thousands of healthy children into certified psychiatric patients for an extra $1.50 a day-on paper, overnight. How did a law from 1909, a government order-in-council, and a higher federal psychiatric subsidy combine to reclassify entire orphanages and funnel millions to religious institutions, while the children remained trapped and unpaid?
In this episode, we tell the episode’s account of how policy, money, and authority reshaped lives in mid-century Quebec and…
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