Someone needed to do it and, for 10 years, no one was willing or able. It was necessary to warn the Canadian public of the HIV risk in the blood system and the real possibility of transmission.Thank you for exposing a 10 year secret. I applaud your work and persistence in bringing this truth to light. I am with you about courage and imagination missing memories of growing up and told by elders It is none of your business They would go on with their work and not have a worry or thought of something that was happening It was as if they did not have to see it did not exist. Sorry last note on this subject for me We must speak loudly and make sure future Canadians speak out Trudreau said accountability is coming and I don’t believe this is going to be silenced and forgotten As you said bless the children of these “residential school” my hope is that the UN gets involved in uncovering these secrets to show what appears to be a genocide of a people that did not share beliefs.
Spouses and partners were unknowingly infected; all ages were affected, from children through seniors. I knew one family of three where both parents and their child were infected.
The knowledge of the risk was available from 1982, but suppressed for 10 years. It was thought the scandal would die with the infected.
I thought it would take a lifetime to expose; I am grateful it took only six years, for every Canadian to know.