Good morning, and welcome to the annual meeting of the shareholders of Liminal BioSciences Inc. My name is Bruce Pritchard, and I'm the Chief Executive Officer of Liminal. I now call to order the annual meeting of shareholders. I will act as Chairman of the meeting, and I will ask Ms. Marie Iskra, the General Counsel of the company, to act as Secretary of the meeting. We'll now start the meeting. Again, this year, the meeting is being held virtually via live audio webcast for the benefit of our shareholders across Canada, the United States, and around the world. The business of the meeting will be conducted in English. This meeting is delivered in English and translated simultaneously into French. Questions and comments can be made in both languages. We'll begin by conducting the official business of the meeting. After the official business is completed, we'll address shareholders' questions submitted during the meeting. I now ask our General Counsel, Marie Iskra, to take us through certain procedures for this meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As this meeting is virtually live via audio webcast, we think it is necessary to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders who wish to communicate with the members of the management team or wish to present or ask a question in respect of a motion may do so using instant messaging on the Lumi virtual interface. As described in our management proxy circular, duly appointed proxy holders were required to register with our transfer agent and obtain a control number prior to this meeting in order to participate, vote, and ask questions during the meeting. Questions can be submitted by any registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder using the instant messaging service of the Lumi virtual interface. When asking a question, please indicate which entity you represent, if any, and confirm that you're a registered shareholder or a duly appointed proxy holder. Questions will only be addressed during the question period at the end of the meeting, provided that questions regarding procedural matters are directly related to the motions before the meeting may be addressed during the meeting. Questions or comments containing inappropriate language or that are otherwise disruptive to the orderly conduct of the meeting for all shareholders will not be addressed. Questions which were already answered or that are redundant or repetitive will not be addressed. For the purposes of the meeting today, voting on all matters will be conducted by a single electronic ballot. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders will be asked to vote on all business items at the same time. This will allow you to choose to vote on each resolution as soon as voting opens or wait until the conclusion of the discussion on each resolution prior to casting your votes. After you've registered your votes for all business items of today's meeting, the scrutineer will compile the votes in respect of each business item. I would also like to advise everyone that certain of the comments you will hear today are forward-looking statements that involves assumptions, risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. We refer you to our disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements contained in our management discussion and analysis for the 2022 fiscal year, which is available on SEDAR, EDGAR, and on our website. There are several routine matters to be dealt with at this meeting. To expedite the meeting, I, as General Counsel, will move all motions and no motion will need to be seconded. Please note that only registered holders of common shares of record as of April 26th, 2023, or their duly appointed proxy holders are permitted to participate, ask questions, and vote at this meeting. Thank you, Marie Iskra. I now appoint Computershare Investor Services Inc as scrutineer. The scrutineer will report on the number of common shares represented in person and by proxy at this meeting and report the voting results. The scrutineer has already provided me with the report on attendance at the meeting, and it shows that quorum has been reached. I therefore declare the meeting regularly constituted for the transaction of such business as may be properly brought before it. As previously mentioned, for the purposes of the meeting today, voting on all matters will be conducted by a single electronic ballot. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders will be asked to vote on all business items at the same time. Voting will be open at the beginning of the formal part of the meeting and will remain open throughout such formal part. You may cast your vote as soon as voting opens or wait until the conclusion of the discussion on each resolution prior to casting your vote. The minutes of the last annual meeting of shareholders held on June 6th, 2022, are available for perusal. I'll dispense with the reading of the minutes of the last annual meeting, and I direct that a copy of such minutes be kept by the secretary. I will now continue with the first item of business for today's meeting. The first item of business today deals with receiving the consolidated financial statements for the company for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2022, and the auditor's report thereon. Copies of such documents have been made available through notice and access to the shareholders. I would ask the secretary to include the same in the minutes of this meeting. We'll now proceed with the election of directors. Regarding the election of directors, as described in the management proxy circular, the board has determined that six persons should be elected as directors and has proposed six candidates to hold such office for the ensuing year. In addition to Eugene Siklos and Gary Bridger, four independent and highly qualified individuals are being proposed for election as directors. Their biographies are included in the company's proxy circular made available to the shareholders. Each of the nominees has expressed a desire to serve as a director of your company. I nominate each of the following persons for election as a director of the company to hold office until the close of the next annual meeting of the shareholders until his or her successors are duly elected or appointed. They are Simon Best, Gary Bridger, Neil Klompas, Eugene Siklos, Timothy Steven Wach, and Alek Krstajic. As mentioned at the beginning of this meeting, voting today will be conducted by a one electronic ballot. We will therefore continue with the next item of business, which is the appointment of the company's auditors. The next item of business is the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's auditors and to authorize the board of directors of the company to fix their remuneration of the auditors. I move that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be appointed as the company's auditors and that the board of directors of the company be authorized to fix the remuneration of the auditors. As previously mentioned, voting today is conducted by a single electronic ballot. Unless you already cast your votes, please proceed now with voting on today's business items, being number one, the election of directors, and number two, the appointment of auditors. You should have already been prompted to register your votes in respect of each of the business items. If you've not already done so, please register your votes by accessing the voting page and first by pressing on the For or Against button next to the name of each proposed director, and second, pressing on the For or Withhold button next to the resolution with respect to the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's auditors. Once the electronic balloting closes, the voting page will disappear, and your votes will automatically be submitted. We'll wait a few moments for the completion of the electronic ballots and then move on with the remainder of the meeting. We'll provide registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders approximately an additional one minute to complete the electronic ballots. Once voting is completed, I would ask that the scrutineer compile the report regarding the resolutions of voting on all business items. We'll reconvene in a few moments with the scrutineer's report and the voting results. Thank you for waiting. I've received the scrutineer's report and confirm the following. Regarding the election of directors, I'm pleased to announce that Simon Best, Gary Bridger, Neil Klompas, Eugene Siklos, Timothy Steven Wach, and Alek Krstajic have been duly elected directors of the company. I'm also pleased to report that the resolution related to the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Chartered Accountants has been carried. This completes the business on the agenda for the annual meeting. I'd now like to thank our secretary and our scrutineers for assisting us. Detailed results of each vote will be available shortly on Canadian and U.S. Securities Commission websites at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov. Before concluding this meeting, we'd be pleased to answer any questions from any registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holder who wishes to address the meeting. Each question we answer, we will summarize the question and read out loud the name of the person who asked the question, and if applicable, the entity such person represents. We'd like to remind you that questions which are already answered or that are redundant or repetitive will not be addressed. Thank you. At that point, there being no questions, we are now concluding the question and answer portion of the meeting. I declare that this meeting is terminated. Thank you for having taken the time to be with us all today.
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