About 100,000 children were emigrated from the United Kingdom to Canada between 1869 and 1939 to be used as indentured farm workers and domestic servants. Treated by their "foster families" as free labor (i.e. slaves), the children were worked long hours, denied an education, and beaten. Believed by Canadians to be orphans, only two percent of these children truly were. The program was used to take the pressure off the British government and charities to care for the poor - out of sight, out of mind.
At about 20:26, Det. Watts remarks, "'Twas ever thus". Thomas Moore's poem "The Fire Worshippers" (1817) contains the line "Oh! Ever thus from childhood's hour". Parodies of this poem, such as in Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop' added a "'twas" and made "'Twas ever thus" a common expression.