Two new directors join CN's board
REGINA, April 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR)
(NYSE: CNI) announced today that the director nominees listed in
the management proxy circular dated March 7,
2017, were elected as directors of CN. The detailed results
of the vote for the election of directors held at CN's Annual
Meeting of Shareholders on April 25
in Regina are set out below.
Election of Directors
On a vote by ballot, each of the following 13 nominees proposed
by management was elected as a director of CN:
Nominee
|
Votes
For
|
%
For
|
Votes
Withheld
|
%
Withheld
|
Shauneen
Bruder
|
529,111,130
|
99.87
|
704,964
|
0.13
|
Donald J.
Carty
|
524,329,111
|
98.96
|
5,486,983
|
1.04
|
Ambassador Gordon
D. Giffin
|
517,940,878
|
97.76
|
11,875,216
|
2.24
|
Julie
Godin
|
529,024,233
|
99.85
|
791,861
|
0.15
|
Edith E.
Holiday
|
516,126,753
|
97.42
|
13,689,341
|
2.58
|
Luc
Jobin
|
527,698,116
|
99.60
|
2,117,978
|
0.40
|
V. Maureen
Kempston Darkes
|
514,678,191
|
97.14
|
15,137,903
|
2.86
|
The Hon. Denis
Losier
|
521,382,053
|
98.41
|
8,434,041
|
1.59
|
The Hon. Kevin G.
Lynch
|
528,829,987
|
99.81
|
986,107
|
0.19
|
James E.
O'Connor
|
526,447,258
|
99.36
|
3,368,836
|
0.64
|
Robert
Pace
|
522,594,343
|
98.64
|
7,218,957
|
1.36
|
Robert L.
Phillips
|
520,111,109
|
98.17
|
9,704,985
|
1.83
|
Laura
Stein
|
526,397,093
|
99.35
|
3,419,001
|
0.65
|
Shauneen Bruder, of Ontario, and Julie
Godin, of Quebec, join the
board as independent directors. Ms. Bruder is the executive
vice-president, operations at Royal Bank of Canada, and Ms. Godin is vice-chair, chief
planning and administration officer of CGI Group Inc.
Robert Pace was unanimously
re-elected by the board of directors as board chair. Mr. Pace, who
joined CN's board in 1994, is president and chief executive officer
of The Pace Group Ltd., based in Halifax, N.S., which is engaged in radio
broadcasting, real estate and environmental services.
Biographical information on all directors is available at
http://www.cn.ca/en/investors/regulatory-filings
Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual
Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today will be filed with the
Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting 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