Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 13

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 13
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. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for ensuring the Company implements good corporate governance practices, including compliance with the Code of Conduct and Ethics. Directors who have, or who may be reasonably perceived to have, a personal or related-party interest in a transaction or agreement being contemplated by the Company are required to declare such interest at any meeting at which the matter is being considered and, when appropriate, will leave the meeting during discussion and abstain from voting on such matter. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for the review and annual updates to our Code of Conduct and Ethics.

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| ​ | All corporate governance documents and policies are available at: |   |   |                                                              | ​ | ​ | ​ | You may also request a copy of our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Board/Committee Charters, free of charge, by writing to: |   |   |                                                                                                        | ​ |
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 3 Waterway Square Place, Suite 110The Woodlands, Texas 77380USA                                        | ​ |

2025 Proxy • Waste Connections, Inc. 15

TABLE OF CONTENTS Corporate Governance

Board Leadership

| ​ |     | ​ | ​ | Michael W. Harlan      
 Chairman of the Board​ | ​ | ​ |     | ​ | ​ | Ronald J. Mittelstaedt                                   
 Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director | ​ |

The Board of Directors oversees the selection of its Chairman and the CEO. Effective July 2019, the Board of Directors separated the positions of Board Chairman and CEO, when Mr. Mittelstaedt transitioned from Chief Executive Officer to the position of Executive Chairman. At that time, since Mr. Mittelstaedt no longer served as both Board Chairman and CEO, our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Board Charter provided that the positions of Board Chairman and CEO be held by separate persons. In April 2023, Mr. Mittelstaedt was appointed as the President and CEO of the Company, at which time the Board of Directors selected