“I was really shocked,”: Potlotek’s Isaiah Bernard elected as new AFN Youth Council Co-Chair

By Meghan Dewar is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Potlotek’s Isaiah Bernard will represent First Nations youth nationally as the new Youth Council Co-Chair on the Assembly of First Nations. Bernard is the 3rd Mi’kmaw individual to hold this position, and the 2nd Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia, following Jaime Battiste who held the position from 2001 to 2006. Bernard shared that it wasn’t long after his nomination that he was elected. “I’m on the Wabanaki Youth Council, I’m the co-chair for that, and through that I got appointed to be on the AFN National Youth Council. This past July, I got nominated and then I got elected probably 10 minutes after that,” Bernard recalled. “I did a little laugh because I was really shocked. I didn’t think I would get…

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