Christopher Cole

Hello, everyone. And welcome to the 2026 Annual Shareholder Meeting of WSP. Again, this year, we are happy to hold today's meeting in a hybrid format, giving you the option to participate either in-person or virtually via live webcast.

I will introduce our speakers: Alexandre L'Heureux, President and Chief Executive Officer of WSP; Alain Michaud, Chief Financial Officer of WSP; and Joelle El-Feghali, Corporate Secretary and Deputy General Counsel of WSP. Also joining us today are the following Board members of WSP: Martine Ferland, Pascale Sourisse, Linda Smith-Galipeau, Macky Tall, Eric Lamarre and Claude Tessier.

I would like to provide you with some general remarks on the conduct of this meeting. As always, the meeting will be conducted in both English and French. You may choose to follow the meeting in the bilingual format presented in English only or in French only. And as we offer simultaneous translation for in-person and remote participants, also questions may be submitted in either language.

The meeting agenda contains 5 matters to be voted on during the business part of the meeting as set out in the corporation's Management Information Circular dated March 20, 2026.

At the meeting, shareholders will: one, receive the audited consolidated financial statements of WSP for the year ending December 31, 2025, and the independent auditor's report thereof; two, elect each of the directors nominees who will serve until the end of the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are appointed; and three, appoint the independent auditor of WSP for the forthcoming year and authorize the directors to fix their remuneration; four, consider a nonbinding advisory resolution on the corporation's approach to executive compensation; five, consider such other business, if