CN announces election of directors

EDMONTON, April 23, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated March 12, 2013, 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 23 in Edmonton 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
Michael R. Armellino	297,036,406	98.91	3,270,546	1.09
A. Charles Baillie	297,091,763	98.93	3,225,227	1.07
Hugh J. Bolton	295,932,932	98.54	4,384,058	1.46
Donald J. Carty	295,752,653	98.48	4,564,336	1.52
Amb. Gordon D. Giffin	295,591,560	98.43	4,725,430	1.57
Edith E. Holiday	294,992,493	98.23	5,324,498	1.77
V. Maureen Kempston Darkes	291,611,799	97.10	8,705,191	2.90
The Hon. Denis Losier	296,608,649	98.77	3,708,341	1.23
The Hon. Edward C. Lumley	291,915,774	97.20	8,401,090	2.80
David G. A. McLean	297,327,968	99.00	2,989,023	1.00
Claude Mongeau	297,889,655	99.19	2,427,337	0.81
James E. O'Connor	298,188,689	99.29	2,128,162	0.71
Robert Pace	291,199,949	96.96	9,115,733	3.04

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting held earlier today will be filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

CN - Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries - spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information on CN, visit the company's website at www.cn.ca.

SOURCE: CN

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