Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 22

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
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13, 2025. (3) None of the non-employee directors received perquisites or other personal benefits in an aggregate amount of $10,000 or more. We reimburse directors for transportation, lodging and other expenses actually incurred in attending Board and committee meetings and other Company-related events. The table below shows the aggregate number of unvested share awards (in the form of RSUs and DSUs, as applicable) outstanding for each non-employee director as of December 31, 2024.

| ​ | NAME                    | ​ | ​ | AGGREGATERESTRICTED SHAREUNIT AWARDSOUTSTANDING ASOF DECEMBER 31,2024 (#) | ​ | ​ | AGGREGATEDEFERRED SHAREUNIT AWARDSOUTSTANDING ASOF DECEMBER 31,2024 (#) | ​ |
| ​ | Andrea E. Bertone       | ​ | ​ |                                                                       331 | ​ | ​ |                                                                   1,257 | ​ |
| ​ | Edward E. “Ned” Guillet | ​ | ​ |                                                                       331 | ​ | ​ |                                                                   4,209 | ​ |
| ​ | Michael W. Harlan       | ​ | ​ |                                                                       331 | ​ | ​ |                                                                   4,209 | ​ |
| ​ | Elise L. Jordan         | ​ | ​ |                                                                       331 | ​ | ​ |                                                                   2,703 | ​ |
| ​ | Cherylyn Harley LeBon   | ​ | ​ |                                                                       302 | ​ | ​ |                                                                     383 | ​ |
| ​ | Susan “Sue” Lee         | ​ | ​ |                                                                       331 | ​ | ​ |                                                                   7,234 | ​ |
| ​ | Carl D. Sparks          | ​ | ​ |                                                                       334 | ​ | ​ |                                                                     423 | ​ |

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Board Composition

Non-Employee Director Equity Ownership Beginning in 2023, non-employee directors are required to hold Common Shares having a market value of at least $500,000, or five times the annual cash retainer. Non-employee directors have five years from the fiscal year end following initial appointment or election to the Board of Directors to accumulate the share ownership prescribed by the guidelines. For purposes of the calculation, Common Shares deemed “beneficially owned” by the non-employee director within the meaning of the rules of the SEC, as well as DS