sentences:  Cindy Blackstock, an associate professor at the University of Alberta and executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada denied the report was true, stating that "The factors driving aboriginal children into care have been well-known for 15 years; it's poverty, poor housing and substance abuse....The federal government provides significantly less funding on reserves than for all other Canadians ... but I have never in my life heard of any military undertones to this."