Stephen Kim
Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Good morning. Welcome to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Avicanna Inc. I am Stephen Kim, the Global Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Avicanna USA Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporation. We are conducting the meeting on the Lumi virtual shareholder meeting platform. The Lumi platform will allow registered shareholders to vote on any matters at this meeting that they have not already voted on by proxy.

I would now like to turn to Aras Azadian, CEO and Director of the corporation, to call this meeting to order. Aras?

Aras Azadian
Co-Founder, CEO & Director

Thank you, Stephen. Pursuant to the corporation's articles and corporate governance documents, as Lead Director of the Board of Directors of the corporation, I will preside as Chairman of the meeting.

Appointment of Secretary and Scrutineer. As Chairman of the meeting, I ask Stephen Kim, Chief Legal Officer of Avicanna USA Inc., to act as Secretary of this meeting; and Arlene Agnew of Odyssey Trust Company as scrutineer.

I now turn the meeting over to Stephen for a brief statement of forward-looking information that may be discussed at the meeting and the explanation of the voting procedures.

Stephen Kim
Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Thank you, Aras. In the course of today's meeting, officers and/or directors of the corporation may, in their remarks or response to questions, make certain statements which may contain forward-looking information for the purposes of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based on our