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TIL that in the 1940s and 50s, the Quebec government deliberately misdiagnosed 20,000 orphans with mental illnesses as they would get larger federal subsidies for psychiatric patients than for orphans. The orphans were confined to psychiatric institutions, many being abused and lobotomised.

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