MONTREAL — Canadian National announced today that Paul M. Tellier, its president and chief executive officer, and Claude Mongeau, its executive vice-president and chief financial officer,voluntarily certified CN’s recent financial reports in submissions today to United States and Canadian securities regulators.
The certificate signed by the two officers relates to CN’s first- and second-quarter 2002 financial results; its 2001 audited financial statements and management discussion and analysis; and its 2001 annual information form.
The certificate is in substantially the same form as the one-time certificates required of the CEOs and CFOs of the 947 largest U.S.companies by a June 27, 2002, order of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). CN is not subject to theSEC order, but elected to comply with it voluntarily.
CN also said its future SEC filings will comply fully with the certification requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, signed into law by U.S. President George Bush on July 30, 2002, where applicable to corporations such as CN.
Canadian National Railway Company spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.