This is a corrected story. A previous version said McGill University filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. In fact, it was the McGill University Health Centre.
Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they’re running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and the McGill University Health Centre have filed motions to dismiss their lawsuit.
Glenn Landry’s mother, Catherine Elizabeth Harter, was among the hundreds of people to receive experimental treatments under the MK-ULTRA program, funded by the Canadian government and the CIA between the 1940s and 1960s at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute, which was affiliated with McGill University.
Landry was born after his mother’s 1959 stay in the hospital, and had to be raised by a foster family because she couldn’t care for him.
While he says early traumas she experienced before seeking treatment undoubtedly played a role in her mental health issues, he believes the …