The school is also located in the remote Dene aboriginal community of La Loche in Saskatchewan Province.
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Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, the main political group representing the country’s aboriginal people, said that in the wake of the La Loche shootings he would put pressure on Trudeau to deliver on election promises to his community.
Clockwise: Victims Marie Jaqueline Janvier, Adam Wood, Dayne Fontaine and Drayden Fontaine.
However, guns are more prevalent in northern and rural communities where people use them for hunting and protection from predators.
“Rather than looking for someone to blame, or coming up with outsider opinions of reasons why this occurred, we must stop and listen to the voices of La Loche”. We need community members to be able to develop and become entrepreneurs. The La Loche Community School teaches pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, CNN reports. Three of those deaths happened in the span of 30 days in the fall.
“Parliament must take action, because all too often the young people feel left alone”, he said. “My thoughts and prayers are with all the victims, their families and friends and all the people of the community”, said Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.
On Saturday night, Chatlain met with the family of a 17-year-old boy charged in the shootings to offer support in this “nightmare experience that they’re going through and (try) to offer them the support of the community”.
“Some of the young people have said to me that by tearing it down, are we getting rid of everything that happened?”
The teen, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, appeared in court Monday and is accused of orchestrating the school shooting, one of the deadliest in Canada’s history, at La Loche Community School last Friday.
As the community looks to make sense of the incident the alleged shooter made his first court appearance Monday.
“There’s a suicide prevention initiative specifically that government has moved on since we have been witness to some very awful numbers with respect especially youth suicides”, Wall said.
Sharon Kennedy, a teacher at the school whose daughter is also a student, said that bullying can lead to drug and alcohol addiction “because kids who are being bullied are going to try to find a way to cope with what they’re going through”.
Andrew Lemaigre, 65, attended the church service and said his daughter-in-law was in the school at the time and saw the shooting.
In La Loche, the school’s fate was already being debated after calls from the acting mayor and others that it be torn down and rebuilt.
“All I heard was cops running around in the school”.
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After the meeting, Wall told reporters the province would provide support to the grief-stricken village of La Loche for “as long as necessary”.
