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By Meghan Dewar is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Potlotek\u2019s 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\u2019kmaw individual to hold this position, and the 2nd Mi\u2019kmaq from Nova Scotia, following Jaime Battiste who held the position from 2001 to 2006. Bernard shared that it wasn\u2019t long after his nomination that he was elected. \u201cI\u2019m on the Wabanaki Youth Council, I\u2019m 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,\u201d Bernard recalled. \u201cI did a little laugh because I was really shocked. I didn\u2019t think I would get… <\/p>\n

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By Meghan Dewar is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Potlotek\u2019s 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\u2019kmaw individual to hold this position, and the 2nd Mi\u2019kmaq from Nova Scotia, following Jaime Battiste who held the position from 2001 to 2006. Bernard shared that it wasn\u2019t long after his nomination that he was elected. \u201cI\u2019m on the Wabanaki Youth Council, I\u2019m 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,\u201d Bernard recalled. \u201cI did a little laugh because I was really shocked. I didn\u2019t think I would get... <\/p>\n

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