Michel Boucher wrote:

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> I suggest though that you inform yourself first before going any further.
> There is much available on first nations and addiction your local friendly
> google search engine can find for you. Hell, let me get you started:
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> http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/s...nlaada-eng.php
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> http://www.nnapf.org/
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> That should keep you busy and off the streets for a while :-)

Do you think I am unaware of the drug and alcohol abuse problems on native
reserves? I have no doubt that if I had actually said that the woman in
questions blew that $234,000 on drugs and booze you would have called me a
racist for suggesting that is what it was all spent on. But I didn't you did.
I was speaking about the problem of throwing money at social problems. Most of
it gets wasted. The native community is a prime example. The federal
government hands out $10 Billion to native bands every year, and what is there
to show for it?

My son used to work in a Montreal hotel that had a lot of Innu staying at it
while their children were in the city for rehab. Each child was accompanied by
as many as a half dozen adults, and while the kids were in rehab, all the
adults were on benders. IMO, it was the adults who should have been in rehab,
and individually so that they wouldn't get together for drunken parties. Fine
example the set for the kids.

But who can blame them. They want to live on the reserves and pretend that they
are living a traditional lifestyle. There are no jobs on the reserves, or for
hundreds of miles around. There isn't much to do but get drunk and stoned.