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Sara Wheale is so “saddened” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments about the “impacts” male construction workers have on the communities they work in, she has resigned from her appointment on the Prime Minister’s Youth Council.

On Tuesday, the 23-year-old construction worker from Breton, a village located about 95 kilometres southwest of Edmonton, posted her Dec. 5 letter addressed to the PM on her Facebook page to let her friends and family know about her decision. In just one day, however, her post has been shared almost 8,000 times.

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“I have decided to resign from the Prime Minister’s Youth Council,” she wrote on Facebook.

“Although it was not an easy decision I feel it is one I had to make. My community is suffering and after the comments made at the G-20 I had to take a step back from the Youth Council to stand with them and all Albertans and Canadians who are feeling the impact of no pipelines,” she wrote.