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“Paul states that a guard hit him with his fist to get him into a cell, so that doctors could have a straitjacket put on him in order to inject him with powerful drugs.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“Several historians see the regime of Duplessis as an anachronism. After his death, he was reproached for having been the head of a corrupt government, having sold the natural resources of Quebec to the highest bidder and having ignored the rights and liberties of the citizens.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“When the train arrived, the sisters put the children on board, obviously never to return, but they kept Paul who was there simply help with the baggage and who had a great deal of difficulty speaking and expressing himself. The transfer of orphans from this institute was a regular occurrence. Paul remembers two women with dark skin who came to categorize the children. One of them, with short nappy hair spoke to Paul, telling him that she had seen him elsewhere (at La Miséricorde Home), and that he was separated from the other children because of a fractured skull that he experienced at the age of 2. Paul stayed at the Chaumont Institute for 3 years. He noticed a great turnover of children – these were transferred to the Chaumont Institute, and then sent on to the United States.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“Paul's story has been laden with criminal acts of all kinds. He is a member of the Abenaki tribe and of the Wolinak Reservation of Becancour. Paul is also the nephew of the former Great Chief of the Nations, Noel St-Aubin. He was sent to do farm work, which we will speak about again in Chapter 7, and then to psychiatric hospitals, where he suffered irreversible damage.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.