Dear Editor:
Re: Tragic lessons from teen's death, Opinion, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 12.
It is obvious to anyone reading the Opinion page that Keith Baldrey has once again knocked the ball out of the ballpark as it concerns the problem of child welfare as it occurs (or doesn't) on native reserves.
The problem with thuggery on most reserves across Canada (from New Brunswick through Caledonia and border reserves in southern Ontario and Quebec) and the latest movements of drugs and guns and illegal persons revealed in recent stories in the national papers is proof that the politically correct actions - or rather, lack thereof - have proven fatal to the weakest members of their society.
It is proven that tribal leaders in most of the reserves are incapable of handling the huge amounts of money made available to them and that they need to be democratized in order to put a stop to the incessant criminality those systems encourage.
Larry Bennett, Burnaby
