 Bon après-midi tout le monde. Merci, Chef National Belgaard, pour cette belle introduction. Let me begin by recognizing we are on the traditional land of the Algonquin people. We acknowledge them as past, present, and future caretakers of this land. This afternoon, let me also join the AFN in honoring the last Mohawk Code Talker from the Second World War veteran Louis Levi Oaks. I had the opportunity to sit with them earlier. And I know that today we are meeting without Elder Elmer Couchain, a truly tireless leader and advocate as he battles sickness in Manitoba. Let me offer my deepest well wishes to him and to his family. Elders, youth, veterans, National Chief Belgaard, members of the AFN Executive, Chiefs in Assembly, thank you for your welcome. It's always a pleasure to meet with you, and I appreciate the invitation to once again address you today. In 2015, just after being sworn in as Prime Minister, I came to you with a clear promise. I gave you my word that we would chart a new path forward and renew the relationship between the Government of Canada and Indigenous Peoples. That we would work as partners to address the legacies of colonialism, racism, and paternalism that for far too long have held your communities back. Well, three years later, we're making true progress and walking forward on our journey of reconciliation. But I know that words aren't enough, because reconciliation isn't just about me standing up here and saying that these issues matter. Reconciliation is about action. It's about closing the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, gaps in housing, in clean water, in education, in good jobs, in child welfare. For a real reconciliation, we need real results. When I talk about concrete results, I mean that people won't be able to sleep around the role because there's not enough good housing. By investing in communities to help them build new reasons for reserves, we're making progress. More than 14,000 houses are currently in construction or are already completed. This includes new houses for elderly people from the first nation of Kanaka Bar and affordable housing for the families of the first Ojibwe nation of Michke Gaugamon. This includes new triplex for the community of the first action of Axel, which takes the expansion, because each person, no matter where they live, should have a safe and affordable place to live. Getting a roof over people's heads is a critically important priority, but it isn't the only issue we're addressing. What about the parent who has never been able to bathe their 8-year-old in clean, safe water? When I spent the day at Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, I rode on a truck that delivers water to homes and listened to people talk about what life is like when you can't drink from the tap. It was heartbreaking, and as a dad, I can't imagine trying to explain to my kids that they can't trust the water that comes out of their taps. It's stories like Shoal Lakes that reaffirm to me our immediate need to act. And we've been hard at work addressing this unacceptable reality for far too many people across the country. Working in partnership with Indigenous communities, our government has lifted 73 long-term drinking water advisories everywhere from Slate Falls Nation in Ontario and Williams Lake in BC to Pabinot in Quebec. For Shoal Lake, we're in the design phase for a new water treatment plant. It's a complex process, so it takes time to lift advisories, but that being said, we are on track to eliminate all advisories by 2021. But of course, clean water and safe, reliable housing are just the start. Closing the gap also means investing in the next generation, like the youth I met in Pecanjecum. It's no coincidence that the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission call to action are about young people. They are today's promise for a better tomorrow. As we implement those calls to action, we're working with First Nations as partners to make the changes that have been desperately needed for far too long. Just look at the child welfare system. There is no question. It is a system that needs to be reformed. I've been fortunate to learn from leaders like Grand Chief Dumas, who spoke at a town hall when I was in Winnipeg, and Cora Morgan, an incredible advocate who's reunited literally hundreds of families. From Ashley Bach, a young woman I met with the Nishnabe Askin Nation Youth Council, who speaks so movingly about the challenges of being raised without her community or her culture. It's an issue that the people in this room are bringing into focus for all Canadians. I was at the AFN meeting in May when you passed a resolution calling for change. Well, just a few days ago, we took a major step forward together to address the challenges in the existing child welfare system. Indigenous children should not be forcibly taken away from their homes and their parents, and that's why we're making it right. Minister Philpott announced that the Government of Canada will introduce federal child welfare legislation co-developed in partnership with Indigenous communities and leaders. This legislation, which we will table in January, will affirm inherent and treaty rights to exercise jurisdiction over children and families. As a result, we'll put kids first, have fewer children in care, and reunite more families. Indigenous communities must be in the driver's seat. As parents and as communities, you know what's best for your kids. It's time we respected that. Now, this is just a first step, but we've got incredible results for kids that we can build on. We have made progress in primary and secondary education. By investing 2.6 billion, we help each child start school on the right foot and learn Indigenous languages. As a teacher, I know that classrooms must be in good shape so that children can learn. That's why we're building new schools and repairing those that deteriorate. These projects change people's lives, and Manitoba is a perfect example. Last month, we announced an investment that was more than necessary in four first nations in the North. These funds will allow thousands of students to go to school in their communities. The new Manitoba First Nations School and the Anishinaabek Agreement deliver real self-government over education and show what can happen when we think outside the box and support new school models. Thousands of kids are benefiting. I saw that firsthand when I visited the Kanjakums-Inochokte Birkstock School, and students proudly showed me their work and even helped teach me a little, a very little Ojibwe. With results like that, it's clear that we're on the right track and not just for schools. Through Jordan's principle, we've approved over 171,000 requests for vital services to help kids get the support they need to thrive. When we form the government, you'll remember that the principle wasn't even being applied. Today, Keanu, a 17-year-old from Manitoba, has the wheelchair and the physiotherapy he needs, and John, a boy who witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, can get counseling and is now doing great at school. We know we have more work to do for Indigenous children, for residential school survivors, for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and better housing, child welfare systems, clean water and education alone, as big as they are, don't add up to reconciliation on their own. I don't have to tell you that these individual steps need a solid foundation, a commitment to a new relationship with Indigenous peoples. And what does a new relationship mean? Well, it means being guided by recognition of rights and decolonizing our laws. That's exactly what we're doing, by overhauling the comprehensive claims and inherent rights policy. A new relationship means working together on legislation to preserve and protect Indigenous languages, which will introduce in Parliament this January, which is fitting because, after all, 2019 is the international year of Indigenous languages. Now, you can applaud for that one, Perry. A new relationship means creating a new fiscal partnership. To be frank, making real change costs money. So we're rolling out 10-year grants for communities and launching a new fiscal policy for self-governing First Nations to make sure people can count on stable funding today and for years to come. A new relationship means that in all of our work, whether it's decolonizing laws, implementing the TRC calls to action, preserving language, or changing our fiscal relationship, we're being led by you. I promise that we would do things differently because top-down solutions not only fail, they're inherently wrong. And perhaps, most importantly, a new relationship of partnership and respect means rebuilding trust. Simply put, we must face the moments in Canada's past where successive federal governments lost the trust of Indigenous peoples. I will continue to work with you to rebuild that trust. When I was on the title land of the Tsilkotin nation to deliver an exoneration of the six chiefs who were wrongly treated as criminals and hanged, Chief Alphonse wrote that we were starting a different story. Earlier this year, the federal government started a different story with the Lubicon Lake Band 2. We settled a historic claim so that they finally received the land and treaty benefits to which they are entitled. We address a new chapter with the first nations aimed at the Treaty of Williams, founded on the respect of their rights and interests. This new story is written little by little. Every day, through the country, we tackle the problems and traumas that have not been addressed in the Convention on Relative Regulations to the Indian Pensioners, whose raffles of the 1960s and the external ones. Together, we have made real and significant progress. Together, we can and will go so much further. The legacies of colonialism took more than 400 years to create, so changes won't come overnight. Together, we have made real and significant progress. Together, we can and will go so much further. Together, we can and will go overnight. But with every positive step forward, we advance a little further along the right path. Each step forward, each water advisory lifted, each school built, is a sign that we are on the right track. In 2015, I promised to rebuild and renew the relationship with Indigenous peoples. I promise to continue that work. Miigwetch. Niinas Komitin. Masichou. Geila Kasla. Dinas Komitinao. Merci beaucoup tout le monde.