Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 84

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 84
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 auditors’ report thereon, will be placed before the Meeting. No formal action will, or is required to, be taken at the Meeting with respect to our audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. Our 2024 audited consolidated financial statements, and the auditors’ report thereon, were included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC and the securities commissions or similar regulatory authorities in Canada on February 13, 2025, and available on our website at https://investors.wasteconnections.com/sec-filings, on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov, and in print, free of charge, to any shareholder who requests in writing a copy by contacting our Secretary or Investor Relations at our principal administrative offices located at 3 Waterway Square Place, Suite 110, The Woodlands, Texas 77380. 78 2025 Proxy • Waste Connections, Inc.

TABLE OF CONTENTS General Information About the Annual Meeting

What are the Required Votes for each Proposal?

| ​ |                                                                   PROPOSAL |   |   |                             | ​ | ​ | REQUIREMENT FOR APPROVAL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | ​ | ​ | EFFECT OF VOTES WITHHELD / ABSTENTIONS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | ​ |
| ​ |                                                                        1.​ | ​ | ​ | Election of Eight Directors | ​ | ​ | You may vote “FOR”or “WITHHOLD”your vote from any or all director nominees named in this proposal.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 The election of each director nominee may be approved by any one or more shareholders voting “FOR” each such director nominee (i.e., a plurality vote).                                                                                                                                                                                                  | ​ | ​ | A“WITHHOLD”vote is treated as a share present but not a vote cast.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 A“WITHHOLD”vote will not be counted as a vote cast for the purposes of electing such nominee. However, in uncontested director elections, an incumbent director who receives more“WITHHOLD”votes than votes“FOR”in respect of his or her election must tender his or her resignation from the Board of Directors. 
 (See Page17“Majority Voting for Directors”)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | ​ |
| ​ |  THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS YOU VOTE “FOR” EACH NOMINEE(See Page