Canadian National Railway : MAY 01, 2019CN announces election of directors
May 01, 2019 at 04:08 pm EDT
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MONTREAL, May 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that the director nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated March 12, 2019, 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 30 in Montreal 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
538,199,964
99.62
2,039,165
0.38
Donald J. Carty
535,001,908
99.03
5,237,222
0.97
Ambassador Gordon D. Giffin
518,972,536
96.06
21,266,594
3.94
Julie Godin
535,933,441
99.20
4,305,689
0.80
Edith E. Holiday
476,623,780
88.22
63,615,348
11.78
V. Maureen Kempston Darkes
514,362,445
95.21
25,876,685
4.79
The Hon. Denis Losier
505,232,679
93.52
35,006,451
6.48
The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch
497,418,561
92.07
42,820,569
7.93
James E. O'Connor
537,800,985
99.55
2,438,145
0.45
Robert Pace
513,902,473
95.13
26,336,656
4.87
Robert L. Phillips
529,824,146
98.07
10,414,983
1.93
Jean-Jacques Ruest
536,789,993
99.36
3,449,136
0.64
Laura Stein
504,054,035
93.30
36,185,093
6.70
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, 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.
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