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Doug Reti

Doug Reti is a retired RCMP officer and member of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation who owns IndigenUs Consulting Group, an Indigenous-owned consulting firm west of Edmonton.

Oct 5, 2026

29:37
Does compassionate care cut it? And when they're in that environment, can you have reasonable conversations with them?
29:47
Well, I think you said it well.
29:49
People need to feel themselves and feel their bodies.
29:53
And they're not going to do that unless they continue to use.
29:55
And we had this debate in my family because I have a number of people that are addicted in one form or another.
30:03
and we had a conversation about jail and i said you know i know jail is not the answer i i mean there's a you know everything has a place and everything you know represents itself can represent itself as a tool and jail is one of those things because you're not gonna be able to talk to my brother until you get him to a point where he you can actually talk to him in a rational way and he can actually start to understand you because they gets into this cycle and it's very, very difficult to get them out.
30:32
And I've talked to families, endless families that, you know, they they want to get their kids off the street.

35 MINS LATER

65:45
What do we need to do from a policing enforcement and barrier perspective to curtail that flow of drugs? And what part of the equation does it play?

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