I don't know if there should be mandatory treatment for drug (under the UCP proposal).
It's intrusive into the rights of people under the Charter and likely to be shot down by the Supreme Court. The
Alberta Eugenics Board was an agency created by the
Alberta government under control by United Farmers of Alberta. "On March 25, 1927,
George Hoadley, Minister of Agriculture and Health in
John E. Brownlee's UFA government, introduced a sexual sterilization bill. The bill faced enormous opposition, primarily from the
Conservative and
Liberal parties, and did not pass the second reading. Hoadley promised to reintroduce it the following year and, on February 23, 1928, the bill was passed. On March 21, 1928, the
lieutenant governor gave
royal assent to the
Sexual Sterilization Act. Brought in by the UFA, the Act remained in place under the following
Social Creditgovernments of
William Aberhart and
Ernest Manning, which amended the Act in 1937 to allow sterilization without consent, and the first year of the Progressive Conservative government.
[14] After
Peter Lougheed's
Progressive Conservative government took power, the Alberta Eugenics Board was finally disbanded and the
Sexual Sterilization Act repealed in 1972.
[15]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Eugenics_Board
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