Eugenics and the firewall

Between 1928 and 1972 nearly three thousand citizens were sterilized, lied to, experimented on, and subjected to daily abuse at hands of provincial staff in Alberta. Most Albertans have forgotten the victims whose names made headlines in the 1990s, and politicians and pundits have shown little empathy for the victims. The Eugenics Board horror story has largely been buried in Canada's mainstream national media. Conservative bloggers and columnists in Canada continue to blame the Liberals and CCF for Alberta's barbaric eugenics program. The tar sands, oil royalties, health care budgets, environmental policies, and keeping the province's interests high on the federal agenda dominate the provincial news. But the questions must be answered: How did a province that claims "strong and free" as its motto deny basic freedoms to so many of its own citizens? Why does the extent of Alberta's eugenics past and its link to the UFA/Social Credit legacy remain the unacknowledged moral blind spots in Canadian politics? --Book Jacket.

Year

2010

Language

English

Publisher

J.G. Shillingford Pub.

Editions

1

Pages

272

ISBN

9781897289518

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