 Thank you so much. It's such a treat to have Steven join us. He wanted to join us for our conference in Lithuania But wasn't able to at the last minute but sent a rousing video It's one of the few video speeches I've ever seen in my life that got a standing ovation from a closing a Closing session at a conference. I'd like to invite now our conference partner Lisa Massacott to come and say a few Thanks on behalf of AIDQ Hi everybody, I don't believe it. It's already finished I'm so tired But I'm very proud to have been associated with this 25th harm reduction international conference and We can say without any doubt that we have achieved our goals We have succeeded in the Hr17 camp to create this space of dialogue between French and French And I hope this meeting Could become, according to me, a tradition and perpetuate in future meetings of the Hr, of harm reduction international. So it's a wish that we form We will be assured that there is still space for French countries within this event We have also given the opportunity to several Quebecois and Canadians to take the lead of the challenges and to have access to what is best for us through the world And it was an important objective for us Finally, and it's probably the most beautiful thing for us, we have the feeling that an event like the Hr17 played as a lever to Concretize certain Announcements in Quebec so we had the chance last Friday To announce the opening of three fixed injection sites Supervised in Montréal so I take advantage of it because it's among the four Future sites there are three members of the association that are there and I salute them so cactus montréal Félicitations spectre de rieu et d'opamine Grand bravo. I want to thank Rick Lines from harm reduction International for giving us the chance to be the local partner of this 25th edition and I hope everyone would have such an opportunity Merci spécial à mon équipe de l'association parce que ça a été beaucoup de travail pour nous de de supporter à chérie dans l'organisation de cet événement je veux souligner le travail de Sylvie Desrosiers qui a été indispensable Arlette côté et Annick trembler aussi de mon équipe qui ont collaboré alors Sur cimo I invite you to stay longer in Montreal and enjoy beauty and diversity of the city and For those who have a doubt the food is very excellent in Montreal Thank you Thank you very much and thanks to a IDQ and your team for all your help I joined HRI in 2007 which was the year after the Vancouver conference when the Vancouver Declaration was drafted And one of the things I've been really privileged to see over my 10 years in many conferences Is the incredible growth and strengths of organizations of people who use drugs nationally and internationally and regionally and It's always been a great honor to me And I think to my colleagues at HRI that our colleagues in the drug user movements have continued to use our event As a place not only to you know come and submit abstracts of participate in panels But as places that they can organize and build stronger networks And we've certainly seen that this week with our colleagues from Drug user networks in Canada the United States and internationally having very important meetings And I'm great grateful to input for inviting me to speak at theirs On behalf of input, I'd like to welcome to the stage Alexandra to keep it. Thank you very much Hi everybody When I heard that when I was invited to speak at the closing ceremony I was really really honored and excited and I wanted to write an intelligent speech And I wanted to organize a die-in and I wanted to do all kind of thing to have a very very Meaningful speech, but I think that during the opening ceremony and my colleagues Jérôme and Jordan did a wonderful job. I know maybe it sounded like hard to some of you, but I Think it's our right to say that we're still angry and that people are still dying and Sorry I've been thinking all day about Luke Luke was a street guy. He was using drugs and he was he also had some mental problem he was schizophrenic and Every day he was talking about dying. He wanted to die and one day he came to me And I was working as an outreach worker and he told me, you know by talking to you guys I see you getting involved. You're doing things I know before you were on the street like me and I see what you are doing and now I want I want to live and It was one of the greatest thing I heard And during the first time we did the overdose of awareness day at the same morning I heard he died of an overdose and I keep thinking about him because yeah, people are still dying There's killing in Philippine. There's overdose in Canada There's people dying all around the world. There's drug user that live in terrible condition that That go in mandatory therapy. They don't want to go and Sometime what I hear also and I talked about it at the French summit. It's that For a lot of people a good drug user is a drug user who stopped to use and why would it be like that? I mean I'm still a drug user and I have the chance to work not only as a peer But also as an outreach worker, but I will always be a peer and I will always be a user Well, maybe not, but I don't want to stop for now and That thank you And I have that chance to be able to speak I have the chance to have the ability and the agility to speak and I wish that it's gonna That me and my peers can change a little thing can change little things all around and that by working together we will make a difference and I of course, it's sad what I heard from Luke when I heard he died I I Remember bad things about it, but I also remember that just before he told us that we could change something So I I'm so happy to see that there's a lot of peers and this year during the the conference I saw more and more pure Pure project and I could hear about a lot of things and that's wonderful. So we have to continue. Thank you Thank you, Alexandra and thank you to all our friends at input for joining us here this week And we look forward to continuing to work with you Collaboratively in partnership on some of the evils in the world that we all want to eradicate