Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Maple Leaf's second quarter 2021 financial results conference call. As a reminder, this conference call is being broadcasted live on the internet and recorded. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. Please note that there will be a question and answer session following the formal remarks and we will go over the question and answer session instructions following the conclusion of the formal presentation. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mike Rall, Investor Relations at Maple Leaf. Please go ahead, Mr. Rall.

Thank you, Michelle, and good morning, everyone. Speaking on the call this morning will be Michael McCain, Chief Executive Officer, Curtis Frank, Chief Operating Officer, and Hirth Varellan, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that some statements made on today's call may constitute forward-looking information and future results may differ materially from what we discuss. Please refer to our Q2 2021 MD&A and other information on our website for a broader description of operations and risk factors that could affect the company's performance. We have also uploaded our Q2 investor deck to our website, which includes support materials for the quarter. As always, the investor relations team will be available after the call for any follow-up questions or any detailed modeling questions that you might have. And with that, I will now turn the call over to Michael. Michael?

Thank you, Mike, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our second quarter 2021 earnings call. As we reach what I hope will be the home stretch of the pandemic, I look back with utter admiration at the resiliency of our team and of our business. Despite many new and significant challenges faced over the past year and a half, our team has responded. We've adapted and delivered, I think, extraordinary results. At the same time, we continue to advance our vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth and continue building long-term value for all of our stakeholders. I'd like to pause on that statement for a moment. Continue building long-term value for all of our stakeholders. This is increasingly important to me as the largest shareholder of Maple Leaf Foods and as the CEO who is dedicated to our vision described in our blueprint for a future of shared value creation. and a sustainable enterprise. There's too much short-termism in the marketplace today, and we're looking beyond that.