Interview with Christian Lejeune, First Year Representative

What made you pick X?

“I wanted to get away from home, just get a different scenery than Calgary and get out of Alberta- learn to be completely reliant on myself and not need my parents anymore in my life. As much as I love to have them in it, I like to be independent. I had a few family friends recommend STFX.”

What made you pick Mac?

“My gym teacher in Calgary told me that Mac’s the party residence so that’s why I had it as my top choice and I was happy when I heard I got in.”

Fastest shotgun record?

“I’m not an impressive shotgunner. You’d think with the amount that I do it I would’ve improved but no. I honestly don’t even time it, I couldn't even tell you that. But not the best.”

What made you decide to run for house council, and later first-year rep?

‘I really like getting involved in positions where you have a say in what goes.  I learned about house council before I learned about the First Year Rep Position, I just saw that I could get involved with planning stuff in Mac, and thought ‘yah, I want to do that’. Then later I found out about the first Year Rep Position, so I applied for that and somehow won the vote. And I’ve been loving it so far.”

Why do you think you got picked over Kevin Bronson and Phoebe Cesario?

“That’s tough, they were good candidates, they were good candidates, they probably would’ve done a great job in the role. I think I got it because I had most of Mac backing me up and I also branched out early in the year and met people in the other residences.

How’s working at the U?

‘It’s a super friendly group of people and it's a fun time whenever we have our council meetings. I’ve tried to talk with as many first years as possible and see what problems they may have or things they want changed; many issues people seemed to have been with residence life so I brought that up and will see if there’s any flexibility. Another thing people mentioned was more X-fest events throughout the year and lots of people were asking questions about house hockey.”

I haven’t heard much about MacBurke. What's happening with that?

“Yeah, so they’re not doing that.  Our first council meeting I asked about that.’ And we found out, that every residence gets just one game against a different residence so for Mac it’ll be against Riley. We’re not allowed to play any of the other residences and not Bishop’s. It's not tournament style either which is also unfortunate. I think that they're doing this as a stepping stone to get back into the tournament style, they hadn’t done it in the past few years because of both Covid and damages in past tournaments. They wanted to put that to an end, and this is their way of seeing how it works. If every residence has one game and it all goes well then maybe, they’ll reintroduce the tournament. I’ll be coaching the Mac team against Riley.’

Any comments on the U General Elections?

“Congrats to both for doing so well, they had a super close election. I would’ve been glad to see it go either way, I think they're both great, capable people.”

Can we expect to see more of Christian Lejeune running in later years?

“It’s safe to say yes.”

So Finally, Kenny’s or the Wheel?

“Kenny’s, I got to say Kenny’s.”