Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  It's just the way it is...you have the prayer, too.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  [Witness speaks in Mi'kmaq] We asked the Creator...thank us for everything that happened today, thank us for the ladies here who spoke, and the men, too, who are missing their loved ones. Also, I wished and asked Him to watch each and every one of us as we're going home tonight.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  My name is Robert Pictou. I'm from Chapel Island First Nation. It's way down in Nova Scotia. My daughter's picture is here. She's been missing for 20 years and eight months. She left behind seven children. Five of those seven children don't remember what their mother looks like.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  [Witness speaks in Mi'kmaq] We ask the Creator to forgive us, to have pity on us, and to help us, especially the ladies here today who have lost their daughters, lost their mothers, lost their sisters, and lost the fair sex as all we men say. The women are the fair sex. I ask the Creator to help us with what's going on here today.