SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Leilani Muir, Malum Prohibitum, Status Offense
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Sexual sterilization act one law that was very hard to remove/repeal even if it was highly objectional. Notion of consent removed in terms of how the eugenics board acted. If you didn"t give consent then you couldn"t leave the hospital. There were 55 operations the year before it was actually repealed. Leilani muir isn"t the only one; there are several other cases. The sexual sterilization act acted and operated as a status offense. Immigrants across canada but particularly out west (eastern europeans). To target people that didn"t belong for some reason and didn"t fit the norm (white and protestant). Being poor made her an easy target for being feeble minded. Status offenses being targeted for who you are. The eugenics board was both expansive and invisible. Stephen harper use of the term whole stock canadians". This term has been used in the past meaning immigrants who have been here for a while or many generations.
