 Thank you, Rick. It's a great honor for me and for the Addiction Workers Association of Quebec to host the 25th International Harm Reduction Conference in Montreal. I want to thank Rick Lines and his team for trusting us as the local partner of this 25th edition. Montreal is the largest Francophone city in North America. This is one of the reason harm reduction international selected Montreal. So if you don't mind, I will continue in French. We will share during three days their knowledge and their exemplary practices in the field of harm reduction related to drugs. The Association des Intervenants des Pendants du Québec is a lucrative organism that regroups the intervenants or organisms interested in the areas of dependence on Quebec, be it the public network, the community and private areas, those of health, social services, education, public security, research, university, and work. It aims to support intervention in preventing treatment, reduction of defects, and social re-insertion of people in prison with a dependence or risk of becoming one. These three acts of intervention are the development of skills, the transfer of knowledge, and the implementation of expertise. If the IDQ has accepted to be the local partner of this 25th edition, it is essentially for three reasons. First, the IDQ has had a unique opportunity for its members, but also for all the actors and partners of Quebec and Canada, working in the field of harm reduction, to share their good practice of working on the international plan and to put to the level their knowledge. This objective is in direct contact with the IDQ's mission. Then, it was clear to us that HR17 had given a lot of visibility to the problems related to drug consumption and dependence on the large-scale. An intervention sector that, in our eyes, suffers a little attention and also support. Finally, the IDQ has chosen its association with the organization of this event in the hope of creating a sort of momentum, inviting all the Quebec actors to better collaborate and work together to better respond to the needs of drug users. Our organization committee reflected this diversity. Representatives of the Police Service, Public Health Service, Association of the Elder, the University and the Service Sponsors have supported the IDQ in the organization of this event. I would like to highlight the contribution of two members of this committee who have believed in the adventure from the beginning and who have offered the association an unthinkable support. It is Mr. Richard Cloutier from the Public Health Service of the Ministry of Health of the Social Services and Mr. Louis Loutelier from Saint-Just, President of Cactus, Montreal. Yesterday, the IDQ organized, along with the International Conference, a first francophone summit on the reduction of drugs related to sexes, with four of these partners, the Addiction Federation in France, the Agréa in Switzerland, the Bruxelles-L'Oise and Modus Vivendi in Belgium. A memorable day where not only the francophone countries have been able to share their exemplary practices and put in common their expertise, but where they have created a space of dialogue and collaboration to make their efforts in promoting the reduction of drugs. I think the French power is back. Before I finish, I would like to thank the Ministry of Health of the Social Services of Quebec, which is more particularly the general director of public health, the Minister who supported us in this mandate and who also allowed us to offer almost no money to facilitate the participation of Quebec intervenants in this 25th edition. A special thanks to the director of public health of Quebec, Dr Horatio Arouda, who is in the room. I would also like to thank Madame Linda Cadieux from Touriste Montréal, who gave us an extremely precious support at the time of the presentation of our candidacy file and who allowed us, I think, to carry out a difficult seduction operation to push back. The 25th edition of the International Conference is held at the same time as the festivities of the 375th anniversary of Montreal. So, for this occasion, we have the pleasure of welcoming the vice president of the Executive Committee of the Montreal City, responsible for public health and citizen services. Please welcome Mrs. Annie Sanson.