Thank you, Madam Speaker and honourable Members. I was pleased that time was taken out by Pauktuutit on the instance of the Honourable Rebecca Mike and with her assistance to honour the founding president of Pauktuutit, Ms. Jeela Moss-Davis. Pauktuutit has come a long way in those ten years. The wise women of Pauktuutit are being heard. They have, in many ways, become what Pauktuutit president Martha Flaherty has described as our conscience.

I would like to thank the Inuit women's association, Pauktuutit, for honouring my constituents by choosing Iqaluit as the location for this very important assembly. I would also like to thank Mary Wilman and her very hard working, local organizing community, including corporate sponsors, for the good work they did in preparing a very warm welcome and full slate of activities for the delegates. Thank you.

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