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For anyone who doesn’t know what you’re talking about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans

My mom did a 2 week rotation through the psych wards as a training nurse in Montreal in the late 50s. Her (rare) comments about the electroshock “treatments” reveal a stunning level of callous patriarchal hubris that was typical and pervasive in Quebec before the Quiet Revolution