 And finally, the International Award, again, which is given out for an outstanding and important international contribution to promoting harm reduction. And again, for many of us in the international community, and I suppose here in Canada as well, our recipients probably need little introduction. You've probably already seen them around filming actually. It's our great honor to present the International Rolison Awards to Peter Sorosy and Ishtvan Takas of Drug Reporter and the Rights Reporter Foundation. As you know, Peter and Ishtvan have been producing groundbreaking advocacy and training videos around harm reduction since 2007, first working at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and later funding the Rights Reporter Foundation. They've picked up a handicap and interviewed experts on harm reduction and drug policy reform, people who use drugs, and how the lives have been affected by the drug war. They've supported NGOs and videos from countries from Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece. They've done work in Mexico and Indonesia to show the brutality of the drug war. They've been to Russia to gain support for the only existing needle exchange in Moscow. And of course they did a fantastic documentary on the insight court case here in Canada. They've trained over 100 activists around the world in the use of video as an advocacy tool to promote harm reduction, drug policy reform and the rights of people who use drugs. They've produced hundreds of videos online that have gotten millions of viewers. And I say you see them at every event, interviewing people, putting out great videos. And I'm sure at the end of this conference they'll have a video to show some of the highlights. It's a really great honor to give these to you. So thank you so much. Thank you Rik and thank you HRI for this big honor. And I also thank you, the participants of the conference because we started to make videos at the International Harm Reduction Conference 10 years ago in Warsaw. And we learned a lot from the wisdom of the people who we interviewed. And 10 years ago there were only a few activists, fellow activists who produced movies. And it's really a great pleasure to see now that there are much more activists using this powerful tool. If you look at the program of the Drug Reporter Film Sessions you will see that there are as many movies produced by drug user activists as by professional filmmakers. So that is a powerful tool to give a voice to the vulnerable people. It's also a good feeling to come back to Canada. As Rik mentioned we were here a few years ago making a movie about the struggle of insight against a very narrow-minded government. And now it's incredible to see the changing environment. Unfortunately that's not the case in many other countries of the world. For example in my own country in Hungary we have a populist leader and the two largest needle and syringe programs were shut down. So please don't forget those people who are now working in a very extremely difficult environment where harm reduction is in decline. And actually there is not only an attack against harm reduction but against human rights and all the values we share together about human dignity. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It's really a great honor to be here and receiving this award. I'm such a lucky person and I would like to say a few words about how lucky I am. When I was around 14 or 15 and I was thinking about what I want to do with my life, what kind of work I want to live. I didn't really have any clue and I was thinking that well if I can live a life in which I'm not doing harm to others or try to minimize the harm that I'm causing and maybe trying to do as good as possible then I may be living a meaningful life. And then I was so lucky to finally getting into this direction. Around 20 years ago I got to know the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and I worked there for more than 10 years and there I was introduced to harm reduction and the philosophy of harm reduction which I really liked because with that I felt like if I do this I cannot do any harm and I'm only doing good and this was all about unconditional help and love and dignity and that cannot be wrong. And I was so lucky to have Matt Peter and worked with him for so long and without him this wouldn't have been possible. We worked a lot together and I was also very lucky that I got to Frankfurt online where I had a friend called Birgit Wichermann-Werth who was running a needle exchange there and I could work there for a while and I could live in a house for people who were taking methadone and I learned a lot about harm reduction there. And when I got home to Budapest I was so lucky that I could get to work in a needle exchange program with really amazing colleagues and at the HCIU I was so lucky that I had our boss Balazs Danish who figured out that why not make movies. Let's buy a camera and let's run around making movies so it was his idea. So without that we wouldn't be standing here now and he gave us enough support and time so that we can play around with all these and get to learn it on our own. But I was so lucky that I didn't have to learn it on my own because ten years ago I got here to Montville where an NGO called Witness from New York was training activists in video advocacy so I got a really good ground on which we could build so that's all luck. But the biggest lack of all is that with Peter we could move around the world and work with you and get to know you and we could fight together for our cause, for the dignity of people and for helping people and against the drug war. And I think it is your light that we are using against the drug war and I feel like we're kind of documenting our cause and it feels like as if we're documenting in medieval times the fight against inquisition because it's pretty much like that when a certain amount of people in power who take certain kind of drugs hurt other people who are not in power who are taking other kind of drugs this is pretty much like the inquisition in those times. So it's a very exciting thing to be a part of something that is fighting this and to recording that and I was saying that you shed light in that darkness and I feel like my role, I found my role that I was looking for when I was 15 to live a meaningful life and I think my role and Peter's role is that we're like a prism in the camera that your light is going on it and we're breaking it down to a rainbow of colors and we're making it as beautiful as that light is and so this is our mission and this is what we want to do and now our new mission is to help others to become that kind of prism so we are training others in using video in advocacy and we have really great students like Alex and Igor who will at a certain time will be even better prisms than I am or than we are so thank you very much for all the love and light that you're shining on. I should say that in addition to making the wonderful films and training sessions that they do Peter and Istvan have also put together the film festival for the conference again this year and we'll be screening the films that they've chosen actually in this room in the mornings and afternoons of the conference so thank them very much as well for that as well as their good work prior to that.