MEDIA ADVISORY - CN Executive Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer
Jean-Jacques Ruest to address American Association of Port Authorities
convention in Halifax Sept. 21

MONTREAL, Sept. 20 /CNW Telbec/ - Jean-Jacques Ruest, executive vice-president and chief marketing officer of CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI), will discuss the role of gateways in the North American transportation market in a speech to the American Association of Port Authorities annual convention in Halifax, N.S., on Sept. 21, 2010, starting at 1 p.m. Atlantic time.

Ruest will deliver his remarks in the Commonwealth Ballroom of the Westin Nova Scotian hotel, located at 1181 Hollis Street, after which he will be available briefly to speak to reporters.

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, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.

For further information: Media: Mark Hallman, Director, Communications & Public Affairs, [phone]; Investment Community: Robert Noorigian, Vice-President, Investor Relations, [phone]