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Father Andre Poilievre is getting tired.

At 82-years-old, the former Saskatoon Correctional Centre chaplain lives in a seniors’ home where he watches fellow residents battle the unrelenting process of aging.

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Poilievre feels it too, yet every day he works to help men and women who want to leave gangs. He goes to court to advocate for former gang members and visits the city’s correctional centres to speak with people behind bars who want to give up their colours.

He can’t keep going forever.

“I don’t have the energy. If I had the energy I would, but I just don’t,” Poilievre said.

He keeps at it because it’s not yet clear who will take over if he stops.

Poilievre retired from the Saskatoon Correctional Centre in 2002 and was soon approached by two teens he had worked with inside. They were in a gang and wanted out. Would he help?

“I said ‘Well, I have no idea either what to do,’ ” Poilievre recalls.

But he worked with the young men and helped them turn their lives around. He hasn’t stopped since.