"Let's bolster their chances of success so we can break the tragic cycle of poverty and substance abuse..."

Like it, oldgit.   So, HOW might THEY do that? Notice: "they."  Because in the end, it's up to them.  Not us.  The key to "success":  YOU do it for yourself, mostly by yourself. 

Trudeau is right, in his stance on "no plan-no money" when it comes to social services bucks (see yesterday's G&M). Many were furious.  How dare the settlers put conditions on the cash??  Well...partners, see?  You do your part, we do ours. He was also right when he said it would take "generations" to effect the changes.  

I submit FN will NEVER really achieve success unless money-for-nothing eventually stops;  handouts sap initiative, encourage indolence. Wait, now, I said "eventually."  Cold turkey would be outrageously cruel to a people so wrecked.  So.  Little by little...25...30 years...the money goes from a flood to a trickle and then...the tax-payer revenue stream eventually just...dries up.