Vote Summary Report

Reporting Period: 07/01/2021 to 06/30/2022

Fund Name: Dividend Growth Split Corp.

Issuer Name

Ticker

Meeting Date

Primary CUSIP

Proposal Text

Proponent

Did Fund Vote (Y/N)?

Vote Instruction

Vote Against Mgmt

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

ATD.B

09/01/2021

01626P403

Approve PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors and Authorize Board to Fix Their Remuneration

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Alain Bouchard

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Melanie Kau

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jean Bernier

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Karinne Bouchard

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Eric Boyko

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jacques D'Amours

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Janice L. Fields

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Richard Fortin

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Brian Hannasch

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Marie Josee Lamothe

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Monique F. Leroux

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Real Plourde

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Daniel Rabinowicz

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Louis Tetu

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Louis Vachon

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Amend Stock Option Plan

Management

Yes

For

No

The Bank of Nova Scotia

BNS

04/05/2022

064149107

Elect Director Nora A. Aufreiter

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Guillermo E. Babatz

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Scott B. Bonham

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Daniel (Don) H. Callahan

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lynn K. Patterson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Michael D. Penner

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Brian J. Porter

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Una M. Power

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Aaron W. Regent

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Calin Rovinescu

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Susan L. Segal

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director L. Scott Thomson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Benita M. Warmbold

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify KPMG LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Amend Stock Option Plan Re: Number of Issuable Shares

Management

Yes

For

No

Amend Stock Option Plan Re: Amending Provisions of the Plan

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Explore the Possibility of Becoming a Benefit Company

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 2: Adopt an Annual Advisory Vote Policy on the Bank's Environmental and Climate Change Action Plan

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

SP 3: Set Up a Climate Change and Environment Committee

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

SP 4: Adopt French as the Official Language of the Bank

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Issuer Name

Ticker

Meeting Date

Primary CUSIP

Proposal Text

Proponent

Did Fund Vote (Y/N)?

Vote Instruction

Vote Against Mgmt

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

CM

04/07/2022

136069101

Elect Director Ammar Aljoundi

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Charles J. G. Brindamour

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Nanci E. Caldwell

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Michelle L. Collins

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Luc Desjardins

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Victor G. Dodig

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Kevin J. Kelly

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Christine E. Larsen

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Nicholas D. Le Pan

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Mary Lou Maher

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jane L. Peverett

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Katharine B. Stevenson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Martine Turcotte

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Barry L. Zubrow

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve Stock Split

Management

Yes

For

No

Fix Variable Compensation Ratio

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Propose the Possibility of Becoming a Benefit Corporation

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 2: Advisory Vote on Environmental Policy

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

SP 3: Approve French as an Official Language

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 4: Disclosure of the CEO Compensation to Median Worker Pay Ratio

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Royal Bank of Canada

RY

04/07/2022

780087102

Elect Director Andrew A. Chisholm

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jacynthe Cote

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Toos N. Daruvala

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David F. Denison

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Cynthia Devine

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Roberta L. Jamieson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David McKay

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Kathleen Taylor

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Maryann Turcke

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Thierry Vandal

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Bridget A. van Kralingen

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Frank Vettese

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jeffery Yabuki

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Update the Bank's Criteria for Sustainable Finance to Preclude Fossil Fuel Activity and Projects Opposing

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Indigenous Peoples

SP 2: Assess and Mitigate the Human Rights and Reputational Risks Involved in the Financialization of Housing

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

SP 3: Avoid Bank Participation in Pollution-Intensive Asset Privatizations

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 4: Examine the Possibility of Becoming a Benefit Company

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 5: Adopt an Annual Advisory Vote Policy on the Bank's Environmental and Climate Change Action Plan and

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

Objectives

SP 6: Adopt French as the Official Language of the Bank

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 7: Produce a Report on Loans Made by the Bank in Support of the Circular Economy

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

SP 8: Provide a Report to Shareholders and Publicly Disclose the CEO Compensation to Median Worker Pay Ratio

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Issuer Name

Ticker

Meeting Date

Primary CUSIP

Proposal Text

Proponent

Did Fund Vote (Y/N)?

Vote Instruction

Vote Against Mgmt

Bank of Montreal

BMO

04/13/2022

063671101

Elect Director Janice M. Babiak

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Sophie Brochu

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Craig W. Broderick

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director George A. Cope

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Stephen Dent

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Christine A. Edwards

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Martin S. Eichenbaum

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David E. Harquail

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Linda S. Huber

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Eric R. La Fleche

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lorraine Mitchelmore

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Madhu Ranganathan

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Darryl White

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify KPMG LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Explore the Possibility of Becoming a Benefit Company

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 2: Adopt an Annual Advisory Vote Policy on the Bank's Environmental and Climate Change Action Plan and

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

Objectives

SP 3: Adopt French as the Official Language of the Bank

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 4: Adopt a Policy to Ensure the Bank's Financing is Consistent with IEA's Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

The Toronto-Dominion Bank

TD

04/14/2022

891160509

Elect Director Cherie L. Brant

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Amy W. Brinkley

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Brian C. Ferguson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Colleen A. Goggins

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jean-Rene Halde

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David E. Kepler

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Brian M. Levitt

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Alan N. MacGibbon

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Karen E. Maidment

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Bharat B. Masrani

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Nadir H. Mohamed

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Claude Mongeau

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director S. Jane Rowe

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Adopt a Policy of Not Financing New Fossil Fuel Supply, Including Financing of Companies Exploring or

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Developing Undeveloped Oil and Gas Reserves

SP 2: Analyze the Possibility of Becoming a Benefit Company

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 3: Advisory Vote on Environmental Policy

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

SP 4: Adopt French as the Official Language

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 5: Provide a Report to Shareholders and Publicly Disclose the CEO Compensation to Median Worker Pay Ratio

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.

WFG

04/20/2022

952845105

Fix Number of Directors at Eleven

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Henry H. (Hank) Ketcham

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Reid E. Carter

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Raymond Ferris

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director John N. Floren

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Ellis Ketcham Johnson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Brian G. Kenning

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Marian Lawson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Colleen M. McMorrow

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Robert L. Phillips

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Janice G. Rennie

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Gillian D. Winckler

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors and Authorize Board to Fix Their Remuneration

Management

Yes

For

No

Amend Articles Re: Increase in Quorum Requirements and Additional Delivery Methods for Notices

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve U.S. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Issuer Name

Ticker

Meeting Date

Primary CUSIP

Proposal Text

Proponent

Did Fund Vote (Y/N)?

Vote Instruction

Vote Against Mgmt

National Bank of Canada

NA

04/22/2022

633067103

Elect Director Maryse Bertrand

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Pierre Blouin

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Pierre Boivin

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Yvon Charest

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Patricia Curadeau-Grou

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Laurent Ferreira

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jean Houde

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Karen Kinsley

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lynn Loewen

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Rebecca McKillican

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Robert Pare

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lino A. Saputo

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Andree Savoie

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Macky Tall

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Pierre Thabet

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify Deloitte LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Examine the Possibility of Becoming a Benefit Company

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 2: Adopt a Policy of Holding an Advisory Vote on the Bank's Environmental and Climate Action Plan and

Shareholder

Yes

For

Yes

Objectives

SP 3: Adopt French as the Official Language of the Bank

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited

CP

04/27/2022

13645T100

Ratify Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Amend Stock Option Incentive Plan

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Management Advisory Vote on Climate Change

Management

Yes

Against

Yes

Elect Director John Baird

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Isabelle Courville

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Keith E. Creel

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Gillian H. Denham

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Edward R. Hamberger

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Matthew H. Paull

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jane L. Peverett

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Andrea Robertson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Gordon T. Trafton

Management

Yes

For

No

TFI International Inc.

TFII

04/28/2022

87241L109

Elect Director Leslie Abi-Karam

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Alain Bedard

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Andre Berard

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director William T. England

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Diane Giard

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Richard Guay

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Debra Kelly-Ennis

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Neil Donald Manning

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Joey Saputo

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Rosemary Turner

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve KPMG LLP as Auditors and Authorize Board to Fix Their Remuneration

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Say on Pay Frequency

Management

Yes

One Year

No

Imperial Oil Limited

IMO

05/03/2022

453038408

Elect Director David W. Cornhill

Management

Yes

Withhold

Yes

Elect Director Bradley W. Corson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Matthew R. Crocker

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Krystyna T. Hoeg

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Miranda C. Hubbs

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jack M. Mintz

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David S. Sutherland

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Adopt a Policy to Cease Oil and Gas Exploration and Developments

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Issuer Name

Ticker

Meeting Date

Primary CUSIP

Proposal Text

Proponent

Did Fund Vote (Y/N)?

Vote Instruction

Vote Against Mgmt

Franco-Nevada Corporation

FNV

05/04/2022

351858105

Elect Director David Harquail

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Paul Brink

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Tom Albanese

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Derek W. Evans

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Catharine Farrow

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Louis Gignac

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Maureen Jensen

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jennifer Maki

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Randall Oliphant

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Elliott Pew

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors and Authorize Board to Fix Their Remuneration

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote to Ratify Named Executive Officer's Compensation

Management

Yes

For

No

BCE Inc.

BCE

05/05/2022

05534B760

Elect Director Mirko Bibic

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David F. Denison

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Robert P. Dexter

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Katherine Lee

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Monique F. Leroux

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Sheila A. Murray

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Gordon M. Nixon

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Louis P. Pagnutti

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Calin Rovinescu

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Karen Sheriff

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Robert C. Simmonds

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jennifer Tory

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Cornell Wright

Management

Yes

For

No

Ratify Deloitte LLP as Auditors

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

SP 1: Propose Formal Representation of Employees in Strategic Decision Making

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 2: Propose Becoming A Benefit Company

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

SP 3: Propose French As Official Language

Shareholder

Yes

Against

No

Canadian Natural Resources Limited

CNQ

05/05/2022

136385101

Elect Director Catherine M. Best

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director M. Elizabeth Cannon

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director N. Murray Edwards

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Dawn L. Farrell

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Christopher L. Fong

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Gordon D. Giffin

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Wilfred A. Gobert

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Steve W. Laut

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Tim S. McKay

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Frank J. McKenna

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David A. Tuer

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Annette M. Verschuren

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors and Authorize Board to Fix Their Remuneration

Management

Yes

For

No

Re-approve Stock Option Plan

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Fortis Inc.

FTS

05/05/2022

349553107

Elect Director Tracey C. Ball

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Pierre J. Blouin

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Paul J. Bonavia

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lawrence T. Borgard

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Maura J. Clark

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lisa Crutchfield

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Margarita K. Dilley

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Julie A. Dobson

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Lisa L. Durocher

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Douglas J. Haughey

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director David G. Hutchens

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Gianna M. Manes

Management

Yes

For

No

Elect Director Jo Mark Zurel

Management

Yes

For

No

Approve Deloitte LLP as Auditors and Authorize Board to Fix Their Remuneration

Management

Yes

For

No

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation Approach

Management

Yes

For

No

Amend Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Management

Yes

For

No

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