Canadian National Railway : APR 24, 2018CN announces election of directors
April 24, 2018 at 09:17 pm
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TORONTO, April 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CN (TSX:CNR) (NYSE:CNI) announced today that the director nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated March 6, 2018, 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 24 in Toronto are set out below.
Election of Directors
On a vote by ballot, each of the following 12 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of CN:
Nominee
Votes For
% For
Votes Withheld
% Withheld
Shauneen Bruder
550,338,980
99.71
1,627,757
0.29
Donald J. Carty
545,058,421
98.75
6,908,317
1.25
Ambassador Gordon D. Giffin
532,199,296
96.42
19,767,441
3.58
Julie Godin
548,749,222
99.42
3,217,515
0.58
Edith E. Holiday
519,176,413
94.06
32,790,323
5.94
V. Maureen Kempston Darkes
525,295,489
95.17
26,671,247
4.83
The Hon. Denis Losier
529,651,751
95.96
22,314,986
4.04
The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch
548,104,947
99.30
3,861,791
0.70
James E. O'Connor
549,242,946
99.51
2,723,791
0.49
Robert Pace
534,394,610
96.82
17,572,128
3.18
Robert L. Phillips
542,077,971
98.21
9,888,767
1.79
Laura Stein
547,183,471
99.13
4,783,267
0.87
Robert Pace was unanimously re-elected by the board of directors as board chair. Mr. Pace 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 whose team of approximately 25,000 railroaders 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.
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