Henry Ketcham

I'm Hank Ketcham, Chairman of the Board of Directors of West Fraser. I'll act as Chair of this meeting, and Tom Theodorakis, our Corporate Secretary, will act as Recording Secretary. I appoint Ellis Amabel from Computershare Investor Services to act as scrutineer for the meeting.

We respectfully acknowledge that we are gathered in Vancouver, British Columbia on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Musqueam Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

I'm also pleased to inform you that members of our Board of Directors and the executive management team are here with us in Vancouver. On behalf of the Board of Directors and the management team, I'm pleased to welcome you to the 2026 Annual General Meeting and Special Meeting of West Fraser, including those of you joining us through the live webcast.

Our plan this morning will be to first deal with the formal items of business. At the end of the meeting, our President and CEO, Sean McLaren, will provide an update on the company's operations. Following Sean's update, if there are any questions, we will be happy to answer them.

I'd like to set out a few procedures for the orderly conduct of the meeting. I'll introduce the various motions or resolutions and request that each be proposed and seconded by a registered shareholder or proxy holder. Voting on the motion to appoint the auditor and fixing the number of directors will be conducted by a show of hands unless a ballot is demanded.

In order to have an accurate record of the votes for the election of each director for the purposes of our majority voting policy and to properly