Sergetalks Blog ~ The Official Blog of Serge LeClerc

According to a survey done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, American young people, eight to 18- 53 hours a week – more than a working day and more than the time these kids spend in school. Because most of them multitask, they manage to pack 10 hours and 45 minutes worth of media content into those seven hours and 38 minutes.

Those figures fit with Canadian statistics used by Serge LeClerc, former Montreal drug lord who, having rehabilitated himself, is an MLA, an author, and an eagerly sought after inspirational speaker. He spoke to high school students and to community members in Foam Lake recently.

He told the high school students that from kindergarten to Grade 12, kids spend 20,000 hours watching TV. During the same time, they spend 10,000 hours in the classroom. (more…)

It was the 1960s, and I was about eighteen when a group of men approached me. The spokesperson was named Ian.

“I work with a man in California named Dr. Timothy Leary,” he said. “Dr. Leary has come up with the chemical formula for manufacturing ‘acid’—LSD. I know how to do that, and I want to set up some laboratories in Canada.

“You have plenty of contacts and a really good enterprise going,” he continued. “You’re the man, Serge. We know all about you. You control a large part of Toronto—all the West End and a good part of the East End. Between your alcohol and fencing all your stolen goods, you have an impressive distribution network. What if I give you another product?” (more…)

But he puts even more responsibility on churches. “Go find a Christian church that will be Christian,” he said. He talked about a community that had asked him to speak. LeClerc “We, our generation, give our kids and grandkids more than we ever had. They don’t pay rent. They don’t buy their stuff. They have the highest disposable income of any group. And they have become a target market for advertisers, starting at 11. We don’t do anything about it. We raise our kids and our grandkids on TV. Kids have televisions and computers in their rooms. We took our kids’ minds and gave them away. Something is wrong when we let technology abscond with the the role of parents. Take a stand. Do something,” Serge LeClerc, MLA, author, motivational speaker and former drug lord told Foam Lake’s adults following a potluck supper on January 8.

The end result, LeClerc said, is that our kids are making some seriously wrong, life-threatening choices. (more…)