Hello, and welcome to the annual meeting of stockholders of Pretium Resources Inc. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. Please also note that all participants are in the listen-only mode. If you experience any technical difficulties during the meeting, please click on the support link on the broadcast screen. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Richard T. O'Brien. The floor is yours. Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and welcome to Pretium's annual general meeting and special meeting of shareholders. My name is Richard T. O'Brien. I'm the chair of the board of directors of Pretium Resources Inc. Due to the ongoing public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to ensure the health and wellbeing of our shareholders, employees, communities, and other stakeholders, the board of directors and management have decided to conduct this year's meeting virtually. Before we start, I'd like to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. During today's meeting, we will only address questions regarding procedural matters or those directly related to the motions before the meeting. If you have any other questions about the company, I invite you to email them to invest@pretivm.com. That is invest@P-R-E-T-I-V-M.com. Questions regarding procedural matters or motions before the meeting can be submitted by any registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder using the instant messaging service of the virtual interface. Questions will only be addressed during the question and answer period immediately prior to the closing of electronic balloting. For the purposes of the meeting today, voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot. To give registered holders and appointed proxy holders sufficient time to vote, we will open the ballot shortly, and we'll keep them open while I present each item of business to be conducted at the meeting and during the question and answer period. When you are asked to vote, you will receive a message on the virtual interface requesting you to register your votes. You will only have a certain amount of time to do so when the polls are open. At the outset, I would like to recognize the commendable service of Peter Birkey in faithfully fulfilling his duties as a member of Pretium's board of directors for the last seven years, and thank him for his contributions of time, experience, and resources. We send Peter our fondest and best wishes in all of his future endeavors. I would also like to introduce Maurice St. Laurent, who is a new director nominee at this meeting, and Tom Peregoodoff, who was appointed to our board in December of last year. We welcome Maurice and Tom to the Pretium team and look forward to working with them as we drive the continued success of the company. We will now proceed with the formal portion of today's meeting, and I ask that the annual general and special meeting of Pretium's shareholders come to order. As mentioned earlier, I will act as chair of the meeting, and I will appoint Vladimir Cvijetinovic to act as secretary of the meeting. Our registrar and transfer agent is Computershare Investor Services Inc. For the purposes of this meeting, I appoint Computershare, through its representatives, as scrutineers to compute the votes of any polls taken at this meeting and to report thereon to the meeting chair. Our directors reviewed and approved the meeting materials comprised of the notice of meeting, the information circular, and the form of proxy. British Columbia corporate and securities law require that shareholders be given 21 days of notice of any shareholders meeting, and that a form of proxy and information circular accompany the notice of meeting. Computershare has attested to the proper mailing of the meeting materials to our shareholders on or around April 7th, 2021, along with Pretium's audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31st, 2020 and 2019, and the related MD&A to those shareholders who requested the financial statements and MD&A. As such, I declare that proper notice of the meeting has been given. We will provide a copy of the proof of mailing to anyone present who requests it. Our quorum requirement for a shareholders meeting currently consists of two persons who are, or who represent by proxy, shareholders who, in the aggregate, hold at least 25% of the issued shares entitled to be voted at the meeting. I have been advised there are voting shares representing more than 67.88% of all outstanding voting shares of the company present. I've received the scrutineer's report. I direct that their formal report be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as a schedule. With the appropriate notice having been given and a quorum being present, I declare the meeting duly constituted and ready for the transaction of business. Our articles provide that as chair, I may propose a motion and that no motion needs to be seconded. In the interest of expediting the business of this meeting, I will move all motions to be proposed by management at this meeting with no second required. As we mentioned, voting today will be conducted by electronic ballot. If you have logged into the virtual meeting as a registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder rather than a guest and have accepted the terms and conditions, you have revoked any and all previously submitted proxies. In this case, please register your votes by electronic ballot. To give registered holders and appointed proxy holders sufficient time to vote, I will now ask that balloting be open while I present each item of business to be conducted at the meeting. Balloting will stay open during the question and answer period. All registered holders and appointed proxy holders who have logged in with their control numbers or username will be able to see on the screen all motions being brought forth at this meeting. I will now present each motion and kindly ask all registered holders and appointed proxy holders to access the voting page and register your votes for each motion at this time. As the first item of business on the agenda for today's meeting, I now present to the meeting the audited consolidated financial statements of the company as at and for the financial years ended December 31st, 2020 and 2019, together with the auditors report to the shareholders thereon. Copies of such documents have been mailed to shareholders who requested such documents, and it is not proposed that I read such statements to the meeting. The next item of business is to set the number of directors of the company at eight for the ensuing year. I move a motion to set the number of directors of the company at eight for the ensuing year. The next item of business is the election of directors. The eight directors to be elected by the shareholders of the company shall hold office until the close of business of the first annual meeting of shareholders of the company following election or until their successors are elected or appointed. We have received consent from each of the persons named in the information circular as proposed nominees of management for directors in accordance with the British Columbia Business Corporations Act. No further nominations were received by the company in accordance with our advance notice policy. Accordingly, I declare that the nominations are closed, and I move a motion to elect the directors named in the information circular as proposed nominees of management. The next item of business is the appointment of auditors of the company for the ensuing year, and to authorize the directors of the company to fix the remuneration of the auditors. Our auditor is PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, chartered professional accountants. I move a motion to appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, chartered professional accountants, as Pretium's auditors, and that the directors be authorized to fix the remuneration payable to the auditors. The next item of business is the ratification, confirmation, and approval of the amendments to Pretium's advance notice policy, which sets out the advance notice requirements for the nomination of directors of the company. The amendments to our advance notice policy culminated from our review of Pretium's corporate governance practices and policies. The amendments were prepared with the assistance of external advisors and more closely align our advance notice policy with better corporate governance practices of our peers. The board views the amended advance notice policy as providing easier access to shareholders than the existing version, which will continue to be effective if the amended version is not ratified, confirmed, and approved by a majority of our shareholders at this meeting. A summary of the proposed amendments to the advance notice policy as well as the amended policy itself were included in our information circular. I now move a motion to approve the resolution set out in the information circular ratifying, confirming, and approving the amended advance notice policy and related matters. The final item of business is the approval of the non-binding advisory vote on our executive compensation program, also referred to as Say on Pay. Details regarding our executive compensation program are provided in our information circular. I move a motion for the company shareholders to accept the approach to executive compensation disclosed in the information circular on an advisory basis and not to diminish the role and responsibilities of the board of directors. I will now open the meeting for questions regarding procedural matters or those directly related to the motions before the meeting. If you have any other questions about the company, I invite you to email them to invest@pretivm.com. I also invite you to attend the webcast and conference call to discuss the financial and operational results of the first quarter of 2021, which will take place tomorrow, May 5th at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time. The webcast can be accessed on the company's website. I ask that all attendees who would like to ask a question use the instant messaging feature of the virtual interface to do so. We will answer as many questions as times permit. When asking your question, please state your name, the entity you represent, if any, and confirm you are a registered shareholder or a duly appointed proxy holder. Please limit your questions to topics relating to today's subject matter and keep your questions short and to the point. We'll now give attendees a moment to type in their questions. For each question we answer, we will summarize the question, read out loud the name of the person who asked such question, and if applicable, the entity such person represents. We'd like to remind you that questions which were already answered or that are redundant or repetitive will not be published or answered. I'm just going to give a minute to see if we have any questions. I've been notified that there are no questions. With that, we will provide registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders one minute to complete the electronic ballots. I'll just pause briefly. I think that all of those people have already completed their ballots. Once the electronic balloting closes, the voting page will disappear, and your votes will be automatically submitted. As voting on all motions brought forth at this meeting is conclusive, with proxy voting in favor of all resolutions brought before the meeting, I would ask that the scrutineers compile the report regarding the results of voting on all business matters, and results will be published on SEDAR and by press release. As there is no further formal business to be brought before the meeting at this time, I move that this meeting now terminate. Thank you very much for your attendance. This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.
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