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Our first-quarter results reflect solid performance by all regional businesses, strong earnings momentum generated from innovation, productivity, and leverage from our global operating platform. These results reflect the 19th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales improvement and each of our four regional businesses delivered higher operating income during the quarter.

By providing full visibility into engagement performance, Productivity Insight demonstrates our commitment to be accountable for our results. As our strategic platform for complex outsourcing engagements, Productivity Insight provides tangible access to Keane's best practices, allowing us to enforce rigorous management disciplines, ensure consistency across engagements and global delivery teams, and drive continuous process improvement efforts.

Every part of an organization is dependent on documented procedures to mitigate risk and improve productivity and performance.

Canada has recorded a remarkably bad productivity performance. Productivity has been tepid in terms of absolute growth rates and relative to the growth and levels recorded in other major economies. If this continues it will threaten the standard of living of Canadians.

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.