 Hi everybody. My name is Alexandra. I'm Jordan and we're from Capoed. I remember when I just started working in the harm reduction, I was new, new, new at a journal made by Pierre Carlin Jectar. And I was all excited to be finally working doing something I like because harm reduction really revealed something for me. And I was going to a legal aid network meeting in Toronto for the first time I was travelling out of Montreal. And during that meeting, there was a special session. They invited one peer representing a peer association from each province in Canada. As you know, Canada is really big and it's all separated by different province. And what's happening here is that even though we're one big country, all the province work differently. So us in Montreal, we were hearing about VanDoo. VanDoo, they were the Vancouver area network of people who used drugs. They had fought for supervised injection sites and we were really, really envious and proud of what they did. And at LACPSE, we were starting to be big, but we had LADIC, the Advocacy Association for People Use Drug and Inclusion. And each one in our province really far from each other and even in Quebec province, we're really far from each other. I have a colleague, he's directly me, he's living 10 hours from Montreal and we were meeting all the time. And at that reunion, we would be people from each different province of Canada speaking all together and, you know, thinking about working together finally. And we decided for a name and we decided to call ourselves CAPUD, Canadian Association of People Use Drug. And in French, it's ACPUD, just, you know, French and English look alike a lot. So we started to work together by teleconference. We tried to see how everybody was working in their province and how we achieved success in different fields. You know, we were all very, very special and some of my colleagues from little province were struggling. They didn't even have real access to material because they were not near big centres. And one thing really united us after a couple of years was that opioid crisis. It went through Canada really, really fast and really in Vancouver, the situation was awful. People were dying and dying and dying and in Montreal, we also had an overdose crisis in 2014. And so we decided to work together really to do something that each in their own region we could, you know, put all that together and do a national election. Yeah. I mean, we found a lot of common ground during this overdose epidemic. And, you know, one of the things that I think united lots of people was a sense of exclusion from policy making. Just the fact that people, you know, had this life experience and, you know, had the answers and didn't have the levers, you know, or the attention of political actors. And, you know, from our perspective, you know, one thing everybody can do, even if you are excluded, we can all be excluded together on the streets. And, you know, we had a national day of protest about what was happening in Canada. The lack of urgency that we felt from our political actors and how they responded to the crisis. So, you know, it all came together fairly quickly. We had eight cities across the country participate. And we, you know, took that with that day came the policy change we wanted to see, which was, you know, we had five demands of the federal government. And then to the drug war and creating more access to heroin-assisted treatments and injectable treatments, supervised consumption, exemptions immediately, harm reduction in prisons and, you know, funding for our own autonomy. So we have the ability to self-advocate during an increasingly worse epidemic, you know, with more people dying right now than there is during, you know, the worst times of the AIDS epidemic in Canada. So we, you know, we marched through eight cities under that and under those federal demands, which we think were missing from all the conversations that had been being had at the federal level, at the level of our federal government. You know, ending the drug war to us seems, you know, obvious, but our government wasn't ready to have a conversation about that, even though, I mean, we're losing people, so, like, you know, six or seven people a day in Canada. So, you know, we're continuing to do that. We're being vocal about what we think needs to change. And we, you know, we want our government to acknowledge that, you know, that this is, you know, this is life or death for us. And it's not appropriate that our government makes life or death decisions without us in the room, at least in the room, because otherwise more people die. So, yeah, on that note, we worked, you know, very, very hard on the day of action. And we had, you know, each city sort of kind of just developed their own little group to plan actions, to continue planning actions. And I think some of the cities they have like coalitions in Vancouver, we have a coalition that's still doing actions at a local and provincial level. So, in some of the cities, like these groups of people, you know, who plan the day action together kind of continue to push drug policy forward in their local context. And one of these local contexts that we're going to show you is just a little video we made about the day of action in Vancouver. I'm going to see if it'll load up. No internet connection. Well, there you go. Is this not connected to the internet? Okay. Oh, it's dropping out. Well, you know, it's not always easy to work together when we're so far from a distance. I think part of our success is because we all in our own region, we are part of another group, a group that is more regional. And so there's always somebody to work with us. And I mean, we may not see each other often, but every year we try to have an event. This year we're lucky we had the International Arm Reduction Conference to get together. So we travel every year to meet each other in person at least one time. And even by working by distance, we managed to do some really cool project like a book called the Purology. It was both in French and in English. And it was about how people can, how people use drugs can take part of the decision that how to start an association, how to work with other peers, how to do a protest, you know, all those kind of ideas. So if people want to see that, it's available on kt.ca in the distribution center. Yeah, yeah. And you can also find it on our Facebook page or our actual social media. We tweeted about it many times. Yeah, it's called Purology. And I think what we've learned about all that is that together we're stronger. And that, you know, the more we can make, the more we can make noise, the more people can see us in all kind of different places and settings and event and action we do. Well, we may not be a big, big, big group, but we are kind of powerful because on our Facebook page also, we use a Facebook page to reach people. How many people did we reach like that? Did you know it? I know there's a lot of... The social media, there's a kind of a big aspect to this is I thought, you know, I was working sort of as Kapud's like communications person. I thought that there wasn't enough emphasis in this movement on social media and how powerful it can be. So we built around that a little bit. It's easy to keep people engaged that way and interested in what's going on. And just like our National Day of Action was, you know, life won't wait or they talk, we die. These are just, you know, hashtags that we use because, you know, that information could be traced back to us when someone uses that hashtag and, you know, you can see the whole history of what we've done. So, yeah. And I think another thing that is really important that make us successful is the inclusion. We really include people as they are. If someone don't really want to talk and, you know, they come for the first time and they want to listen, okay, because that's how you learn. And we try to include everybody and everybody is able to take the place they want to take through different projects and ideas. So I think there's going to be question after. Do you have something else to add? Not really. I think we covered a lot. Yeah, I'll just wait for questions. At the end. Thank you.