Joseph McNamara

More than 1 million customers are out of service this morning as a result of Wednesday's freezing rain event. Work continued overnight and today, we have 1,000 workers in the field. Despite our efforts, since the weather event is not over yet, new #outages may still occur. The regions most affected by outages at the moment are Montreal, Montérégie, Outaouais, the Laurentians, Laval, Lanaudière, Centre du Québec and Estrie. Unfortunately, it is not possible to give recovery times at this moment; we are seeing the damages as we go along. In addition to the linemen, pruners, planters and support staff for supplies, logistics and administrative support are being deployed. We are confident that we can restore power to some of the affected customers today. Unfortunately, it is already expected that some customers will still be without power on Friday and this weekend. Our teams will remain on the ground until every single client's service has been brought back. A press conference will take place at 11 a.m. to provide an update on the situation. Thank you for your patience.