 I am very happy to be here with you today and to be able to say a few words of introduction. First of all, I would like to thank the First Nations who have frequented and occupied this territory during the millennia to welcome them on their traditional and treaty territory. As we welcome His Holiness this week, it is important to reflect on the significance of this moment for survivors, for Indigenous peoples, and indeed for all Canadians. Yesterday, on July 26, it was St Anne's Day. St Anne is an important figure for Catholics. She represents maternal love. She also represents the family. The family is our roots. It is what helps us to grow and discover the world. The family is the first thing that has been raised to children who have been sent to Indigenous peoples. When I visited the Kamloops, KSS, and Williams Lake, when I talk to survivors and families, I think of the children. And I also think of parents. As a dad, I can't imagine my kids being taken away. When my kids are crying, I can console them. When they're happy, I can share that feeling of joy with them, of accomplishment. But in residential schools, these children were alone and isolated in their pain and sorrow far from their families and communities, and even worse, stripped of their language, their culture, their identity. A profound loneliness, not only belonging to families and communities, but also their language, their culture, and their identity. Since the publication in 2015 of the final report of the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis, ask the Pope to present excuses to survivors, their families, and their communities. The excuses for the role that the Catholic Roman Church as an institution has played in the wrong treatment on spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual children have suffered in the pensioners led by the Church. This week's event, a muscovite, wouldn't have been possible without the courage and perseverance of survivors who shared their painful memories and told their experiences directly to the Holy Spirit. Your Holiness, in our previous conversations, from the first time we spoke about this, you always offered your time genuinely seeking to understand, to do right, and to atone. This week, you recognized the abuses experienced at residential schools that resulted in cultural destruction, loss of life, and ongoing traumas lived by indigenous peoples in every region of the country. As your Holiness has said, begging, pardon, is not the end of the matter. It is a starting point, the first step. On Monday morning, I was sitting with survivors and I felt their reaction to your apology. Each will take from it what they need, but there's no doubt that you had an enormous impact. Survivors and their descendants need to be at the center of everything we do going forward. In April, Denis National Chief Gerald Antoine was at the Vatican and he compared the moment to the experience of walking through the snow and seeing fresh moose tracks. It was a feeling of hope. Today, I want to say let's all continue our work together to keep this hope alive. When I went to the Vatican five years ago, I was there to address the issue of pensioners and reconciliation with your Holiness. And I know that your presence here this week would not have been possible without your personal convictions and your integrity. Thank you for coming with the heart open. We all recognize that the pensioners' system has tried to assimilate the children of the Indigenous. Today, the Indigenous peoples continue to fight to defend and preserve their culture and their language. A traditional gathering that took place in Mascotches is a very good example. Reconciliation is our responsibility to all of us. It is our responsibility to see our differences not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity to learn, to better understand and to take action. Our Governor-General talks often about how reconciliation is not a single act, but a lifetime journey of healing. This journey is different for everyone. I spoke about Saint Anne being a symbol of maternal love and family, but Saint Anne is also a symbol of healing. Tomorrow, your Holiness will visit Saint Anne de Beaupris. Pilgrims have been traveling there for centuries to pray and to ask Saint Anne to help them heal. So in the spirit of healing, let us never give up. Canadians, institutions, let us continue our work together with Indigenous peoples until we reach a better future for everyone. Merci, thank you, gracias.