That sentiment led him to take a part-time job with a local community group and become the city’s first-ever public writer. I know that there are people who got jobs with my help, that got medical assistance, that had their apartments repaired,” Duchesne said. Hautcoeur sees in the public writer post a way to secure continued government funding, and lashes out at any activism or improvisation that might jeopardize the centre’s finances. “You asked me to be the voice of the wordless!” Mathieu says in his defence. There shouldn’t be so many people living in intellectual poverty, who can’t express themselves and defend themselves in life,” Duchesne said.

Source: thestar September 17, 2016 09:00 UTC