Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share with my colleagues how privileged I have been, not as a politician, but as an interpreter, to have worked with some distinguished politicians of the last decade. Such great leaders as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, John Amagoalik, J. B. Nooguang, Charlie Watt and the late Mark R. Gordon. It was ten years ago, this fall, that the First Ministers' conference was taking place on aboriginal issues. I would like to commend the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, its president at that time, Mr. Amagoalik, and the Makivik Corporation in their success and their struggle to include the first nations and the Metis of our country in the First Ministers' conference, in dealing with aboriginal rights.

As the result of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the Makivik Corporation's successful influence, the first nations and the Metis were finally included in the First Ministers' conference on the Charter of Rights. This is an example that we can achieve if we are all united. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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