Operator
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Conifex Timber Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ken Shields. Please go ahead.
Kenneth Shields
Chairman & CEO
Well, thank you, Gary, and good afternoon, everyone. My name is Ken Shields, and I’m the Chairman and CEO of Conifex. In accordance with our bylaws, I will act as Chairman. I will now call the meeting to order.
Most of our shareholders are joining us today by teleconference instead of attending in person. I’d like to thank those of you who have called in today to listen in on our meeting.
I’d like to appoint Trevor Pruden, our Chief Financial Officer as Secretary; Gary Gill of Sangra Law Firm as Recording Secretary and Loretta Pataki of Computershare Investor Services as the scrutineer. If anyone hasn’t registered with the scrutineer, please do so now.
I have a copy of the notice calling this meeting and an affidavit of mailing of [ Michael Kiami ] of Computershare Trust Company of Canada. Since notice of this meeting has been circulated, I will dispense with the reading of the notice calling this meeting. In accordance with the Canada Business Corporations Act, the notice of meeting and record date was also published in The Globe and Mail newspaper on April 27, 2026.
Turning to the scrutineer’s report. It indicates that there are 28 shareholders present in person or by proxy totaling 11,649,303 shares, which represents approximately 28.57% of our 40,767,710 outstanding shares as of the record date. In accordance with our bylaws, I declare that a quorum of shareholders is present, and this meeting is regularly and duly called
