Canadian National Railway Company

Good afternoon. My name is Sarah and I'll be your operator today. Welcome to CN's fourth quarter and full year 2021 financial and operating results conference call. All participants are now in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's remarks, there'll be a question and answer session. I would like to turn the call over to Paul Butcher, Vice President, Investor Relations. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Butcher.

So good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today to discuss CN's fourth quarter and 2021 and full year results as we continue to make progress on our strategic plan, redefining railroading for the 21st century. We are joined today by Mr. Robert Pace, chair of the CN board, who would like to kick things off this afternoon with a few words about our new CEO. Then we will turn the call over to JJ Rue, outgoing president and CEO, Rob Riley, executive vice president and COO, Gislaine Houlle, executive vice president and CFO, James Cairns, our senior vice president, rail-centric supply chain, Keith Reardon, our senior vice president, consumer product supply chain, and Helen Quirk, our senior vice president and chief strategy officer. They will talk about the results in the fourth quarter and full year of 2021. We will then hold a question and answer period. And I would like to remind you to please limit yourself to one question. Now, before we get started, we'd like to draw your attention to the forward-looking statements and additional legal information, which are available at the beginning of the presentation. As a reminder, today's presentation contains certain projections and other forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. and Canadian securities law. These statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements and are more fully described in our cautionary statements regarding forward-looking statements in our presentation. So before we begin, Board Chair Mr. Robert Pace would like to say a few words. Robert?

Thank you, Paul. Our board today is pleased to announce the appointment of Tracy Robert as President and CEO of CN. Tracy brings 35 years of operational management, strategy development expertise, which will help drive growth for CN, operational improvements, and long-term shareholder and stakeholder returns, and ensure we continue to attract a world-class workforce. She comes to us from TC Energy, where she holds the title of Executive Vice President and President of Canadian Natural Gas Pipelines and President of Coastal Links. She's been there for approximately eight years. And prior to that, she's had a career of 27 years at CP, where she held positions in operations, finance, and commercial. Today, we are also pleased to welcome a new board member, Jean Charest, as a member of our board. Jean Charest has a distinguished public service career for over 30 years in Canada, including serving as the 29th Premier of Quebec. Under his leadership, Quebec experienced a sustained period of economic prosperity and improved significantly major infrastructure. Our board will benefit from his knowledge of Canada and his global network. And finally, we're excited to announce that Shawnee Bruder, a director of CN, will become the vice chair of our board. And I want to thank, on behalf of all our board, the outstanding job that she did as chairing the search committee for our new CEO, along with Justin Howell, Kevin Lynch, and Bob Phillips. And I know she'll have a distinguished career at CN in the future. And on that note, I'd just like to highlight the fact that Tracy will not be joining us on the call today because we want to focus on the fourth quarter and year-end results. So on that note, JJ, I'll turn the meeting over to you.