Indigenous Edmonton city councillor prepares to welcome Pope Francis
“When I was 19 years old, I felt like I didn’t belong, I didn’t have a place, I was carrying those generations of pain on my shoulders and I found myself in the middle of the High Level Bridge contemplating just leaving all of it behind.”Story continues below advertisement
It’s a pain Paquette said he knows others like him have felt, and still feel. Paquette said he was able to find strength. In his life he as worked for reconciliation through art and advocacy.He is now the first Métis and Cree city councillor in Edmonton. “I have been accused a lot of, ‘oh Indigenous councillor, you only want to focus on Indigenous issues,'” Paquette said. “But if they understood the culture, they would understand that focusing on the issues that matter to everyone, we lift everyone up and that is the way we see the world.”Now, after council voted to make him deputy mayor for the papal visit, he’s preparing to greet the Pope in a way that represents his city and his culture.
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