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Greetings and welcome to the ColumbiaCare third quarter 2021 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Leanne Evans, Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, Operator. Good morning, and thank you for joining Columbia Care's third quarter 2021 conference call. With me today are Nicholas Vita, our chief executive officer, David Hart, our chief operating officer, Mike Livingstone, our interim chief financial officer, and Jesse Shannon, our chief growth officer. Earlier this morning, we issued a press release reporting our third quarter results, which we also filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on CDAR. A copy of this release is available on the investor section of our corporate website, where you will also be able to access a replay of this call for up to 30 days. Please note that the remarks we make today regarding future expectations, plans, and prospects for the company constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, which we disclose in more detail in the risk factors section of our annual information forum dated March 31st, 2021, as filed with applicable regulatory authorities and posted on CDAR. We remind you that any forward-looking statements represent our views as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. While we may update any such forward-looking statements in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, except as otherwise required by applicable law. Also, please note that on today's call, we will refer to certain non-IFRS financial measures, such as adjusted EBITDA and gross profit margin, excluding changes in fair value of biological assets. These measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. ColumbiaCare considers certain non-IFRS measures to be meaningful indicators of the performance of its business in addition to, but not as a substitute for, our IFRS results. The reconciliation of such non-IFRS financial measures to their nearest comparable IFRS measure is included in our press release issued earlier today. With that, I will turn the call over to Nick Vita to get us started. Nick?