Seeing as how the isolated Cree reserves in northern Quebec are not having a suicide issues among their youth, and their leaders are often related to Cree leaders in northern Ontario, it is pretty clear that being on an isolated reserve or blaming Cree leadership are not the problems here, as some settlers maintain.

No, there has to be something else at work here, because we would see the same issue all across the country, from isolated reserves in Labrador to isolated coastal First Nations in BC, but we are not.  The vast majority of this ongoing suicide epidemic is in northern Ontario.  Why?  I think it is likely because of the same thing that happens in southern Ontario.  One kid does it, and then you get a bunch of copycats who are successful or not at taking their lives.  The key difference is that schools and parent groups jump into action in the south, and have all manner of services available that people in the north simply don't.  That is what the problem is.