...Good morning. I would like to welcome you to this Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of The North West Company Inc. My name is Brock Bulbuck, and I am a Director of The North West Company Inc., and Chair of the Board. We are pleased to host today's meeting through a virtual meeting platform accessible to all our shareholders, regardless of physical location, to participate, submit questions, and vote. I will act as Chair of today's meeting. I will now call this meeting to order. I would like to begin by acknowledging that The North West Company Head Office is located on Indigenous ancestral lands on Treaty 1 territory. The Red River Valley is also the birthplace of the MTtis. We acknowledge that drinking water in Winnipeg comes from Shoal Lake First Nation. I also want to thank Frank Coleman and Deepak Chopra, who will not be standing for re-election this year. Frank Coleman retired from the Board of Directors on February 13 this year in connection with the company's term limit for...
