Matt Bertin, the last Maritime occupier, is leaving Moncton. (CBC)

The last holdout of the Maritime Occupy movement has decided to move on after 138 days near Moncton's city hall and, like many young people in the region, Mathieu Bertin is looking for other horizons.

Bertin is taking down his tent and packing up his water filter, heater and computer.

“I want to go and meet other people that are having their own fight and to help them,” Bertin said.

For several months, Bertin has been the only occupier left in Moncton.

He said that while some people have heckled him, the police and the city never asked him to leave and many others have helped him.

“They just drop by and say, ‘Hey would you like to come to my place and eat?’” Bertin said.

He showered at a friend’s place and used the washroom at the gas station across the street. He kept his day job at a courier service during his entire occupation.

Bertin said that camping out all winter in a park in Moncton has changed his life.

“It's probably the only time of my life where I actually feel surrounded with real friends,” he said.

During his stay in the park he used social media via WiFi to keep in touch with other protest movements around the world, and now he plans to join them.

“Because I've had a lot of support here, I want to kind of repay that support towards other people that might need it around the world,” Bertin said.

He said he’ll travel to Montreal, Toronto and eventually to London, England.

The Occupy Moncton movement started in October to raise awareness of how corporate greed and inequality affect 99 per cent of the population.

The movements in cities across Canada built on the momentum of protests originally started on Sept. 17 in New York City.