 Beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1960s, the Canadian federal government gave the Catholic Church in Quebec $2.25 per day per psychiatric patient for their cost of care, but only $0.75 a day per orphan.The perverse result is that the orphan children were diagnosed as mentally ill so the church could receive the larger amount of money.This psychiatric misdiagnosis affected up to 20,000 people, and the children are known as the Duplessis Orphans.