Advocates of eugenic practices in Canada spanned a wide-background, with prominent support emerging from academics and medical professionals. Figures from across the political spectrum came to embrace eugenic ideas, particularly in Western Canada, translating those ideas into laws and policies, such as the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta (1928). With the rise to power of the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta in the early 1970s, politicians also came to play a central role in the repeal of the Sexual Sterilization Act, and in recognition of Canada's eugenic past.

-Rob Wilson