Sergetalks Blog ~ The Official Blog of Serge LeClerc

“The secret of life,” Serge LeClerc said in Foam Lake recently, “is not the choice you make. It’s the choices you do not make.”

LeClerc would know. It was a choice that he did not make – to stay at school one Friday afternoon – that led to a brutally abusive training centre, crime, drug addiction, and, eventually, life as one of Canada’s major drug lords. Another choice he rejected allowed him to turn his life around.

LeClerc, now a Saskatchewan MLA, is the son of a Cree mother who was raped at 14. Unable to read or write, living in Toronto, she worked two dishwashing jobs with Sunday off. . “She was a very strong Christian who gave me a set of guidelines and an ethical certainty that I could follow. My identify was framed by the kids in the inner city who didn’t want to fight me because I was a talented boxer. I had talent, and I had mother’s faith.” (more…)