Canada's Ugly Secret

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Actually you can draw a line from residential schools and high unemployment* to the substance abuse and other social problems that are endemic on first nation reserves.

*The unemployment thing can be caused as much by geography as anything, if you look at a map of where a lot of reserves are.

The world only needs so many hunters, trappers, whalers and reindeer herders. The rest will either have to adopt the ways of the palefaces or drink themselves into oblivion. Adapt or perish.