Sergetalks Blog ~ The Official Blog of Serge LeClerc

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…)

“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…)