Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 87

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 87
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non-objecting beneficial owners” or “NOBOs,” who do not object to such disclosure. The Company pays intermediaries to send proxy-related materials to OBOs and NOBOs. How do Proxies Work? Our Board of Directors is asking for your proxy. Giving us your proxy means you authorize us to vote your Common Shares at the Meeting in the manner you direct. The Common Shares represented by your proxy will be voted or withheld from voting in accordance with your instructions on any ballot that may be called for, and if you specify a choice with respect to any matter to be acted upon, your Common Shares will be voted accordingly. If you sign your proxy card or voting information form but do not give voting instructions, we will vote your Common Shares as follows: • FOReach of our director nominees; • FORthe non-binding, advisory proposal to approve the compensation of our NEOs as disclosed in this Proxy Statement (the Say-on-Pay Proposal); and • FORthe approval of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 and the authorization of the Board of Directors to fix Grant Thornton LLP’s remuneration. You can choose to vote “FOR” or “WITHHOLD” your vote from: (1) the election of any one or more of the persons nominated for election as directors; and (2) the approval of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 and the authorization of the directors to fix the auditor’s remuneration. You can choose to vote “FOR”, “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN” from voting for the approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the Say-on-Pay Proposal. What is a Quorum? To carry on the business of the Meeting, we must have a quorum at the Meeting. A quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of shareholders of the Company consists of at least two persons present and each entitled to vote at the meeting and holding personally or representing as proxies, in the aggregate, 25% of the eligible vote. 80 2025 Proxy • Waste Connections, Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS General Information About the Annual Meeting Abstentions and broker non-votes are counted as present and entitled to vote at the Meeting for purposes of determining whether we have a quorum. A broker non-vote occurs when a broker signs and returns a proxy but does not vote on a particular proposal because the broker does not have discretionary voting power for that particular