Will also match employee donations
MONTREAL, May 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR)
(NYSE:CNI) announced it will make a donation of C$50,000 to the Canadian Red Cross in support of
relief efforts to aid victims of the wildfires in Northern Alberta. In addition, CN will match
employee donations to wildfire relief up to a total of C$25,000.
"The devastating impact of the wildfires in the Fort McMurray area saddens us all," said
Jim Vena, executive vice president
and chief operating officer of CN. "We want to help relief efforts
to help address the suffering and loss caused by this disaster. We
are encouraging our employees to support their colleagues,
customers and neighbours in Northern
Alberta, and hope our collective contributions can help
provide some of the immediate relief so desperately needed."
CN is encouraging employees to donate to the relief efforts
through the CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community
Fund.
CN is a true backbone of the economy that transports more than
C$250 billion worth of goods annually
for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource
products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail
network of approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries –
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of
Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North America.
For more information about CN, visit the Company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN