By Adam Berls

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‘We deserve better’: says Nazko Chief

Apr 5, 2024 | 1:42 PM

QUESNEL — Chief Leah Stump of the Nazko First Nation was one of many present at Quesnel’s council meeting Tuesday and told council how much the actions over the last two weeks have done for truth and reconciliation in the community.

“We deserve better than having to come here to prove that our people went to residential schools, to prove that we were hurt, that we were broken. We deserve better.” – Chief Leah Stump, Nazko First Nation

Chief Stump says that she is unsure if Mayor Ron Paull can do anything to repair the relationship between him and Nazko and that what has transpired in Quesnel in the last two weeks should not be happening in 2024.

“For it go this far in 2024, for us to be attending a city council meeting where we have to listen to two others defend the book. How does it even get that far?” – Chief Leah Stump, Nazko First Nation

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The Mayor’s wife Pat Morton, and an contributor to the book Grave Error, Frances Widdowson, spoke at the meeting. Comments made by Widdowson at the meeting caused Stump and others to walk out of the meeting. Stump said that she didn’t want her elders “who were sitting there in the front row to continue to listen to what she had to say.”

Despite calls to step down, Mayor Paull has said that he intends to stay on as Mayor until the next election in 2026.

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