CN announces election of directors

MONTREAL, April 26, 2016 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that the director nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated March 8, 2016, 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 26 in Montreal are set out below.

Election of Directors

On a vote by ballot, each of the following 11 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of CN:

Nominee	Votes For	% For	Votes Withheld	% Withheld
Donald J. Carty	559,678,494	98.40	9,080,513	1.60
Ambassador Gordon D. Giffin	551,104,145	96.90	17,654,862	3.10
Edith E. Holiday	555,452,082	97.66	13,306,925	2.34
V. Maureen Kempston Darkes	552,871,773	97.21	15,887,234	2.79
The Hon. Denis Losier	555,092,820	97.60	13,666,187	2.40
The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch	566,687,098	99.64	2,071,909	0.36
Claude Mongeau	547,364,422	96.24	21,394,585	3.76
James E. O'Connor	567,384,099	99.76	1,374,908	0.24
Robert Pace	548,527,307	96.44	20,231,700	3.56
Robert L. Phillips	560,886,614	98.62	7,872,393	1.38
Laura Stein	566,174,685	99.55	2,584,322	0.45

Biographical information on all directors is available at http://www.cn.ca/en/investors/financial-information/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 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.

SOURCE CN

Contacts: Media: Mark Hallman, Director, Communications and Public Affairs, [phone]; Investment Community, Sam Forgione, Vice-President, Investor Relations, [phone]