At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to TransAlta Renewables' Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Drinkwater, you may begin your meeting. Good morning, fellow shareholders, and welcome to the annual shareholder meeting of TransAlta Renewables. Thank you for joining us today. I am David Drinkwater, Chair of the Board of Directors. Although the meeting is being held virtually, we nonetheless welcome questions from our shareholders. As a registered shareholder or duly appointed proxyholder, you can submit your questions at any time through the text box located on your screen. If your question is specific to a matter of business to be heard at the time of a motion, please make this explicit in your question. Unless otherwise indicated, all questions will be answered during the Q&A session. I'm joined today by Todd Stack, President, Brent Ward, Chief Financial Officer, and Scott Jeffers, Vice President and Corporate Secretary. A representative from Ernst & Young LLP will also be available to answer any questions. In order to make the best use of our time, certain shareholders have been asked to move and second the resolutions that we will consider at this meeting. I will call on them at the appropriate times. I would now like to call this meeting to order. In accordance with the bylaws, as chair of the board, I will act as chair of the meeting, and Scott Jeffers will act as secretary of the meeting. As a procedural matter, I remind you only registered shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders who held shares at the close of business on March 24th, 2023, the record date. If you are a registered shareholder or a duly appointed proxyholder and wish to vote during the meeting, you can vote through the ballot that will appear on your screen once the polls are open. For those shareholders that are beneficial shareholders and submitted your voting instruction form directly to your intermediary, your votes have already been registered with our transfer agent. The secretary has [Provack], Michael Novelli, Susan Ward, and myself, David Drinkwater. Scott Jeffers, would you please nominate them as directors for the coming year? My name is Scott Jeffers. I'm a shareholder, and I move that the proposed nominees be elected as directors of the corporation to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders, until their successors are elected or appointed. Thank you, Scott. I will now ask Robert Millard to move a motion that nominations be closed and Chiara Valentini to second the motion. My name is Robert. I am a shareholder, and I so move. May I have the motion seconded? My name is Chiara Valentini. I am a shareholder and second the motion. Thank you, Robert and Chiara. We will now proceed to a vote. You're able to vote for or against each of the individual director nominees. Next item of business is the submission of our 2022 annual consolidated financial statements, together with the auditor's report. A copy of the 2022 annual report, which contains the annual consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, together with the auditor's report, has been mailed to each registered and beneficial shareholder who requested a copy. Copies are also available online under the corporation's profile at SEDAR and on our website. The board of directors has approved these financial statements. The secretary will now table the financial statements and auditor's report. Mr. Chair, the corporation's annual consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, together with the auditor's report, are tabled. Next item of business is the reappointment of the auditors. As you'll see in the management proxy circular, shareholders are being asked to authorize the reappointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors for TransAlta Renewables for the ensuing year at such remuneration as will be fixed by the board. I will now ask Robert to move a motion that Ernst & Young LLP be reappointed auditors of the corporation to hold office until the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders, and Chiara to second the motion. My name is Robert Millard. I am a shareholder. I so move. May I have the motion seconded? My name is Chiara Valentini. I am a shareholder. I second the motion. Thank you, Robert and Chiara. The business for this meeting. There being no further business, the polls are now going to close. The scrutineers will now count the votes and report back to the meeting. This will take a moment. I have now received from the scrutineers their preliminary report on the ballots. With respect to the election of directors, I declare that each of the 8 nominees have been properly elected as directors of TransAlta Renewables for the ensuing year. Press release and report on voting results indicating the detailed outcome of this vote will also be publicly filed after this meeting on SEDAR. With respect to the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the corporation for the ensuing year, voting results show that over 99% of the votes were in favor of the reappointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the company. I declare that Ernst & Young LLP is reappointed as auditor of the company and that the directors are authorized to fix the auditor's remuneration. That concludes the formal business of the meeting. Scott, have we received any comments or questions pertaining to the formal matters of business? No, Chair, we have not. I therefore declare that the formal meeting be terminated. On behalf of management of TransAlta Renewables and the Board, I'd like to thank everyone for attending our meeting today and for your participation. Thank you for joining us. That concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect. Thank you.
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