Mi’gmaw communities in New Brunswick start alternative to standard policing | APTN News [Video]

Seven Mi’gmaw communities in New Brunswick are starting a peacekeeping program as an alternative to conventional policing methods.

“I think an important issue for us too is making sure that our people and our children know that they can turn to us for anything,” says T.C. Ward, a Mi’gmaw Peacekeeper, or Wantoqo’tikewinu’k in Mi’gmaq.

“That could vary not just from like police matter it could be somebody lost, or you know somebody who needs somebody to talk to you know and I’m glad to be that shoulder you know that’s who I am.”

Ward is one of 14 graduates from a seven-week training program held at New Brunswick Community College, with two peacekeepers serving each community.

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