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Campbell announced Tuesday. Ottawa is paying the money to avoid legal claims by victims
or the experiments carried out by Dr. Ewen Cameron at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute.
As many as 80 people were Involved, but It’s not clear how many are still alive and eligible
for the payments. Campbell said the government still does not admit any legal liability or
responsibility, but is paying the money on compassionate and humanitarian grounds. But
Linda Macdonald, a Vancouver woman who launched the court case that forced the
settlement, said she considers the payments an admission of responsibility and a symbolic
apology. My biggest concern has always been that the federal government acknowledge its
responsibility in funding the experiments, so that we can hope that such abuse of patients
rights will never happen again in this country," she said. Macdonald, now 55, underwent
"de-patterning" at Allan Memorial in 1903.As a mother of five children under four years old,
she was sent to the Institute suffering from fatigue and depression. She was treated as a
schizophrenic, though never diagnosed as such. She was heavily drugged, kept asleep for
86 days, given over 100 electroshock treatments. She emerged five days later, barely able
to function. She couldn't read or write, use a toilet, drive a car, cook a meal or make a bed.
She didn’t remember her husband, children or the first 26 years of her life." I accept the
governments symbolic apology through compensation, but no amount of money can
compensate me for the loss of memory . . and the enormous difficulties my family and I
have suffered".
McDonald said in a statement. She was in Los Angeles on Tuesday talking to film producers
about her story. Former patients at the Allan Memorial have sought compensation from both
the Canadian and U.S. government for years. The US. Central Intelligence Agency, wanting
to learn more about brainwashing and psycho-logical de-programming, covertly gave
$85,000 to Cameron between 1957 and 1962. Canada, as part of a national program of
health care grants, gave about $70,000 between 1950 and 1954 and again between 1961
and 1964. The experiments ended in 1965. Canadian officials later said they didn't know of
the CIA funding. In 1988, the U.S. Justice Department reached an out-of-court settlement
that gave about $100,000 to each of nine Canadians treated under Cameron’s CIA-funded
experiments. The Canadian government helped pay legal bills for those Canadians who sued
the United States, but balked at paying Its own compensation.
A 1986 report by George Cooper, a Halifax lawyer and former Conservative MP, absolved
Canadian authorities of any blame and described Cameron’s work as "in cautious but not
irresponsible." But Thomas Berger, Mac-Donald’s lawyer, presented a report to the
government in 1990 challenging Cooper’s conclusions One U. S. doctor likened Cameron’s
research to brainwashing techniques used In Chinese prisons. A Justice Department official
said he did not know how many people are eligible for the $100,000 payments. A number of
former patients have already died. Only people still alive can apply for compensation.
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