Bouchard really hated mining, but there was nothing he could do about it having spent his entire childhood growing up in a family that had two parents as fly in fly out workers. We're going to break some canon here and assume Bouchard is Australian for the purpose of this exercise. Basically they had to keep the ute running somehow, and the new big block they just had dropped in it wasn't gonna pay for itself was it, so they had to leave the kids behind while they went up north and made the big bucks. This really effected the clearly Australian Maxime, and caused him years of emotional trauma that still haven't been fully resolved. Centrelink hung up on him when he called in to try and get some support too. Typical government branch though. Had to branch out into meth dealing like so many of todays youth, but eventually found his feet, went to uni and got his minng degree and officially completed the cycle of systematic family abuse and expectation. Then he abandoned it all and did some hockey instead. All at the ripe old age of 17. What a ride.