Paul Desmarais
Senior Vice-President

Ladies and gentlemen, the time set for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders has come, and I hereby call the meeting to order. As you can see, simultaneous interpretation is available. My name is Paul Desmarais and standing next to me are Mr. Jeffrey Orr, President and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Stephane Lemay, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. As Chairman of the Board, I'm responsible for chairing this meeting. Mr. Lemay will serve as Secretary. We are delighted to welcome you today, and we also welcome those who are watching the meeting via the webcast. I must say that I don't remember having seen so many people at this meeting for a long time, and it must be because of Jeff.

At this meeting, we may make statements containing forward-looking information. I would like to draw your attention to the visuals, where if you can read it, you're lucky. So I invite you to read all of this as you wish. Throughout the meeting [ we will address ] specific questions on formal items of business, and we'll have the opportunity to ask those questions and before we proceed to vote on specific items as well. We will also have a question period, of course, as you all know, at the end of the meeting. I note the presence of Mr. Welchinski and Madam [indiscernible] Deloitte, the corporation's auditors.

I hereby appoint Mrs. Pina Pacifico and Mrs. Teresa de Luo of Computershare as scrutineers for this meeting and authorize them to submit the attendance list.