Collusion Quotes

“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 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.

“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.

“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.

“Lionized in the psychiatric community for introducing drugs into “treatment”, German-born psychiatrist”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“Silence This conspiracy did not start yesterday. At the heart of this case, honesty is scarce – often the goal is to protect the memory of some of those”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“Hervé Bertrand denounced these barbarous pedophile attacks to the Montreal police. He made criminal depositions several times to the High Court of Montreal, with the support of RadioCanada who filmed his depositions. The general prosecutor of Quebec has never followed through on these depositions.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“One year later, a sister came into the room and announced: “From now on, you are all crazy!” From one day to the next, the rooms became cells, the windows had bars, and books were thrown into the trash. Some of the children began to receive abusive treatment, because there were now guards to watch over the “insane.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.

“He wondered why they treated him like he was insane or like an animal. He was only trying to defend himself from the personnel but ended up giving in, since his punishment increased with his resistance. Paul only hoped, in the brief times of clarity of mind that were his, that someone would get his out of that place. When he slept, a nightmare was nothing compared to his waking hours of the day.”
― Rod Vienneau, Collusion : The dark history of the Duplessis Orphans.