North West Company Inc. (The)

All participants, please stand by. Your meeting is ready to begin. Please be advised that this conference call is being recorded. Welcome to the Northwest Company, Inc. First Quarter Result Conference Call. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Dan McConnell, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McConnell, please go ahead.

All right. Well, thank you very much, and good afternoon, and welcome everybody to the Northwest Company Fourth Quarter Conference Call. I'm joined here today by John King, our Chief Financial Officer. and Amanda Sutton, our VP of Legal and Corporate Secretary. So I'm going to start the meeting today by asking Amanda to read our disclosure statement.

Thank you, Dan. Before we begin, I remind you that certain information presented today may constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect Northwest's current expectations, estimates, projections, and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, which could cause actual performance and financial results in the future to vary materially from those contemplated in the forward-looking statements. For additional information on these risks, please see Northwest Annual Information Form and its MD&A under the heading Risk Factors. Dan?