The dry community piece is there. In many cases, it's there for good reason. If you don't have the proper health care system, proper social programs, or infrastructure, to add alcohol into a community is like adding fuel to a fire. In many cases, as you know, not because of any of the moral aspects.... I want to be clear about that. This is not a moral issue. This is an issue of the human right to health. First nations do not have access to the human right to health in a substantive way in our communities. Therefore, alcohol and drugs make things worse. Communities say, “Because we have the ability, we want a dry community, because we don't want our community to hurt any further.”
On September 14th, 2017. See this statement in context.