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Canada has already had some insanely regressive governments in the past and there was little in the way to stop the at the time. Religious, Christian, authorita
by morkalork 3y ago
Canada has already had some insanely regressive governments in the past and there was little in the way to stop the at the time. Religious, Christian, authoritarians were usually behind the oppression too.
One not often talk about example is unmarried pregnant women were forced to give up their babies for "morality" reasons. "Some 600,000 Canadian babies were labelled “illegitimate” between 1945 and 1971, and it is estimated that between 300,000 and 450,000 babies were given up for forced adoption during this period."*
Heck, if you were the wrong kind of Christian, you could be persecuted. Jehovah's Witnesses were banned during WW2 and afterwards, in Québec, distributing their literature was an offence because it attacked the Catholic Church.
* https://globalnews.ca/news/4342569/forced-adoption-unmarried-women-canada-report/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4342569/forced-adoption-unmarried...