CN announces election of directors
MONTREAL, April 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that the director nominees listed in the management information circular dated March 10, 2020, 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 (“Meeting”) on April 28 via online webcast 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 | 545,457,856 | 99.89 | 591,800 | 0.11 |
| Donald J. Carty | 538,834,662 | 98.68 | 7,214,994 | 1.32 |
| Ambassador Gordon D. Giffin | 520,766,087 | 95.37 | 25,283,569 | 4.63 |
| Julie Godin | 541,458,782 | 99.16 | 4,590,874 | 0.84 |
| Edith E. Holiday | 455,478,279 | 83.41 | 90,571,377 | 16.59 |
| V. Maureen Kempston Darkes | 515,296,991 | 94.37 | 30,752,665 | 5.63 |
| The Hon. Denis Losier | 507,409,744 | 92.92 | 38,639,912 | 7.08 |
| The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch | 526,256,845 | 96.38 | 19,792,811 | 3.62 |
| James E. O’Connor | 542,510,887 | 99.35 | 3,538,769 | 0.65 |
| Robert Pace | 523,415,700 | 95.85 | 22,633,956 | 4.15 |
| Robert L. Phillips | 513,210,381 | 93.99 | 32,839,275 | 6.01 |
| Jean-Jacques Ruest | 541,716,262 | 99.21 | 4,333,394 | 0.79 |
| Laura Stein | 519,315,435 | 95.10 | 26,734,221 | 4.90 |
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
Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on April 28, 2020 will be filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
Meeting Questions
Any questions related to the Meeting that were not answered during the Meeting due to time constraints will be posted online and answered at . The questions and answers will remain available until one week after the Meeting.
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 .
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