Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual general and special meeting of shareholders of VIQ Solutions, Inc. Please note that this meeting is being recorded. I would like to introduce Larry Taylor, Chairman of the Board of Directors of VIQ Solutions. Mr. Taylor, the floor is yours. Good morning, everyone. I'm Larry Taylor, Chairman of the Board of Directors of VIQ Solutions. Welcome to our annual general and special meeting. Now, I would like to introduce members of the board who are online today. Harvey Gordon, Joseph Quarin, Brad Wells, Shing Pan, Christine Fellows, Susan Sumner, and Sebastien Paré. I would like to thank the directors for their contribution and hard work in what has been a very important year for the company with the achievement of a number of strategic corporate milestones, including AI language models and related patents, distribution agreements with JAVS and/or digital and industry best practice workflows for cybersecurity. We are solely focused on building an industry-leading AI-enabled technology services company, serving our customer needs securely with speed and accuracy. Now, I will hand things over to Sebastien to chair this meeting. Thank you, Larry. Welcome everyone, to the annual and special meeting of the common shareholders of VIQ Solutions, Inc. The meeting will now come to order. My name is Sebastien Paré, and I'm the Chief Executive Officer of VIQ Solutions. With the approval of the meeting, I will act as chairman of the meeting. We have the following matters of business to conduct today. Number 1, the presentation of the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022. The election of eight directors. Number 3, the appointment of Ernst & Young as the corporation's auditors and authorizing the board to fix their remuneration. Number 4, approval of the amended and restated bylaw number 1 of the company. Number 5, approval of amendment to the articles of the company for a possible future consolidation of the company issue and outstanding common shares. With your approval, I will ask our corporate counsel, Andreas Kloppenborg from Dentons, to act as secretary of the meeting, and Rosa Garofalo of TSX Trust Company to act as scrutineer of this meeting. In order that the meeting covers all of the business items within a reasonable period of time, we have pre-arranged with the chair to move and second certain resolutions. This procedure is not an attempt to discourage participation, but merely a way to expedite proceedings in a virtual environment. We have previously mailed the meeting materials and the financial statements of the corporation for the year end of December 31, 2022, and the auditor's report. I direct that copies of the documents mailed to the shareholders be kept by the secretary with the minutes of this meeting. If there's no objection, the reading of the notice of the meeting will be dispensed with. Pursuant to the bylaws of the corporation, business might be transacted at this meeting if not less than two holders are personally present, owning or representing by proxy 5% of the shares entitled to be voted at the meeting. I have received the preliminary scrutineers report, and it shows that there are 150 shareholders personally present or represented by proxy at the meeting, representing 15,123,408 common shares or 43.56% of the share entitled to be voted at the meeting. I confirm that there's a quorum of shareholders present at the meeting. I direct that the scrutineers report be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as scheduled. I now declare that the meeting is called and properly established for the transaction of business. As mentioned already, most registered shareholders have already voted by proxy prior to the proxy cutoff time. For those of you who did not vote in advance by proxy and need to vote today, we will conduct a vote on each resolution before the meeting today virtually. To vote, simply click on the Vote button on the left side of your screen, at which point the resolution and the voting options will appear. At this time, I will ask TSX Trust Company to please open the platform for voting on all resolutions. The first item of business is the presentation to the shareholders of the financial statements of the corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, and the auditor's report thereon. A copy of the financial statements has been mailed to each registered shareholder. In addition, the 2022 results were publicly disseminated to the company various filings on SEDAR and on EDGAR on March 31. The company also held an in-depth earnings call on March 30. The next item of business is the election of the directors. I believe that Larry Taylor has a motion with respect to the election of the directors. I nominate Larry Taylor, Harvey Gordon, Brad Wells, Joseph Quarin, Christine Fellows, Shing Pan, Susan Sumner, and Sebastien Paré as directors of the corporation to hold office until the next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed, subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act and the bylaws of the corporation. I second the nomination. A reminder to everyone that most of you have already cast your vote on these motions. Therefore, you do not need to vote again today on your screen. I now declare the nominations closed. The next item of business is the appointment of the auditors of the corporation and to authorize the board to fix their remuneration. I believe Larry Taylor has a motion in this regard. I move that Ernst & Young LLP Chartered Professional Accountants be appointed auditors of the corporation to hold office until the next annual meeting of the shareholders or until their successors are appointed, and that their remuneration as such be fixed by the board of the directors. I second the motion. The next item of business is the approval of the amended and restated bylaw number 1 of the corporation, as more particularly described in the management information circular distributed to shareholders in connection with this meeting. I believe Larry Taylor has a motion in this regard. I move that the bylaw resolution approving the amended and restated law number 1 of the corporation, as set out in the management information circular distributed to shareholders in the connection with this meeting, be passed. I second the motion. The next item of business is the approval of an amendment to the articles of the company for a possible future consolidation of the company issue and outstanding common share, as more particularly described in the management information circular distributed to shareholders in connection with this meeting. I believe Larry Taylor has a motion in this regard. I move that a special resolution be passed to approve an amendment to the articles of incorporation for a future consolidation of the company's issued and outstanding common shares as set out in the management information circular distributed to shareholders in connection with this meeting be passed. I second the motion. We will be closing the polls in 10 seconds. I now ask that TSX Trust now close the polls. I will now declare the results of the voting. With respect to the election of the directors, each nominee has received a majority of yes votes, and I declare them duly elected to act as director of the corporation until the next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed, subject to the provision of the Business Corporations Act and the bylaws of the corporation. I declare the motion to appoint Ernst & Young LLP chartered accountants as the auditors of the corporation and the remuneration to be fixed by the board carried. I declare the motion to pass the bylaw resolution carried. I also declare the motion to approve an amendment to the articles of the company for a possible future consolidation of the issue and outstanding common shares carried. Details of the meetings may be obtained from the secretary of the meeting. Unless there are questions from the floor, Larry Taylor will move. Now the formal portion of this meeting will be terminated. I move this meeting be terminated. I second the motion. We will pause for 10 seconds and begin the informal part of the AGM. Due to the extensive number of public filings, disclosure, press releases, and earnings calls recently, only a brief Q&A period is now on. A reminder that all our attendees that only registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders are entitled to ask questions at this meeting. To ask a question, please simply click on the Ask a Question button on the left side of your screen. At this point, there's no more further questions. Thank you very much for joining us today and on this call, and we look forward to speaking with you again during the next earnings calls. Thank you. The operator, please terminate the broadcast.
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