Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 79

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 79
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, director and employee must avoid any investment, interest or association that interferes or might interfere with that person’s independent exercise of judgment in the Company’s best interests, and that service to the Company should never be subordinated to personal gain or advantage. 74 2025 Proxy • Waste Connections, Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS Certain Relationships and Related Transactions In an effort to help avoid these and other conflicts of interest, the Code of Conduct and Ethics sets forth certain rules the Company has adopted, including rules that prohibit: (a) officers and directors, and any employees who buy or sell goods or services or have responsibility connected to buying and selling for or on behalf of the Company, as well as the members of their respective families, from having certain economic interests in business concerns that transact business with the Company or are in competition with it; (b) officers, directors or employees from (directly or indirectly) giving or accepting certain gifts to or from any person soliciting or doing business with the Company; (c) officers of the Company from serving as a director of any other company that is organized for profit without the written approval of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; and (d) officers, directors or employees from having any material interest in a business that deprives the Company of any business opportunity or is in any way detrimental to the Company. Each officer and director must report all actual or potential conflicts of interest to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Directors must also comply with the conflict provisions relating to directors set forth in our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Board Charter and prescribed by the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “OBCA”). The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will resolve all conflicts of interest involving officers or directors. If a conflict involves a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, that committee will resolve the conflict only if there are two disinterested directors remaining on that committee. Otherwise, the matter will be resolved by the entire Board of Directors. If a significant conflict exists involving a director that cannot be resolved and cannot be waived, the director must resign. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has the sole authority to waive provisions of our Code of Conduct and Ethics with respect to executive officers and directors in specific circumstances where it determines that such waiver is appropriate, subject to compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Any such waivers relating to our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer or Controller, or persons performing similar functions, that relates to any element of the Code of