AARC has official approval because early in it's founding a concerted effort was made to sell the program in the Provincial Legislature. In order to do this, AARC used testimonials from people who were either unqualified to assess an adolescent drug treatment program, such as Mr. Doctorlewisandrews, or who praised the ideological conept of using corporate and user funds to pay for it, such as Dr. Ray Baker. Since this time, in spite of ongoing abuse of children and evaporating money, AARC consistently trots out false misleading statistics to justify the abuses. AARC is a sales campaign almost as much as it is a self-perpetuating abuse factory. A small group of people whose interests are in direct conflict with those of the clients perpetuate the false success story and increase the flow of money in and the output of propanda. Now as far as libel, let's see what you can find that is false. Would it be the 9.5 million AARC has raised? Would it be the Ph.D. obtained by the leader without writing a dissertation? Would it be the fact that the testimonials on AARC's website are made in several cases by people, specifially affilliated with the "Union Institute",who are in a conflict of interest? Would it be that the leader's training in adolescent drug intervention came at the knee of V.M. Newton at Kids? Would it be that the leader left New Jersey and brought victims from Kids to Calgary and used them to counsel at the brand new AARC? Would it be that kids are forced to sign a consent? Would it be that the methods used in AARC are not scientifically proven? Would it be that assaults have taken place in the recovery homes which AARC covered up? Would it be the independent evaluation that was authored by at least three people from AARC, thus rendering it entirely not independent? Interesting tactic, alluding to AARC's favored position with law enforcement and the courts and then challenging folks to take action. That response fits right in with the pattern of threats, the cultivation of powerful friends and the reliance on fear and ignorance to feed AARC. The insults referring to drooling and howling at the moon added a lot to the already dignified nature of the AARC propagandists. I'm not a 15-year old girl with an unstable family and a history of drug abuse, so I don't cow that easily.