I'll start by saying in Cree:
[Member spoke in Cree]
[Translation]
That means, “Hello, you are all welcome.” My Cree name means “strong eagle man”, and I say this because I can be francophone, I can be Albertan, and I can be proud of our official languages and the progress we've made in preserving indigenous languages. Indigenous peoples also want the “by and for” principle to apply to them, and I see linguistic duality as the foundation of that, just like the preservation of the important heritage represented by the languages of indigenous peoples. That is also important to who we are as Canadians.