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Barbara Stymiest, FCA
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Ms. Stymiest has an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and
FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. From 2004 to 2011, Ms. Stymiest held various senior management
positions in the Royal Bank of Canada and served as a member of the Group Executive responsible for the overall strategic direction
of the company. Prior to this, Ms. Stymiest held positions as Chief Executive Officer at TSX Group Inc., Executive Vice-President &
CFO at BMO Nesbitt Burns and Partner of Ernst & Young LLP. Ms. Stymiest is currently a Director of Symcor Inc., the Canadian
Bankers Association, the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Royal Ontario
Museum.
John Richardson, B. Comm., MBA, FCA – Mr. Richardson has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Toronto, an
MBA from the Harvard Business School and FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Mr. Richardson was
appointed Chairman of the Ontario Pension Board in July 2004 and retired at the end of his three year term on June 30, 2007. He was
a former senior partner of Clarkson Gordon & Co; Executive Vice President of Lonvest Corporation (now London Insurance Group
Inc.); President of Great Lakes Power, Deputy Chairman of London Insurance Groups Inc.; Chairman, President and CEO of
Wellington Insurance; and Chairman of London Guarantee Insurance Company. Mr. Richardson was a past board member with the
Insurance Bureau of Canada and the Facility Association. Mr. Richardson is currently Chairman of Boiler Inspection and Insurance
Co. Limited, and a Director of Armtec Infrastructure Inc.
The Board has also determined that each of Mr. Kerr, Ms. Stymiest and Mr. Richardson is an audit committee financial expert within
the meaning of General Instruction B(8)(a) of form 40-F under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The SEC has
indicated that the designation of a person as an audit committee financial expert does not make such person an “expert” for any
purpose, impose any duties, obligations or liability on such person that are greater than those imposed on members of the Audit and
Risk Management Committee and the Board who do not carry this designation or affect the duties, obligations or liability of any other
member of the audit committee or the Board.
As set out in the Audit and Risk Management Committee’s charter, the committee is responsible for pre-approving all non-audit
services to be provided to the Company by its independent external auditor. The Company’s practice requires senior management to
report to the Audit and Risk Management Committee any provision of services by the auditors and requires consideration as to
whether the provision of the services other than audit services is compatible with maintaining the auditor’s independence. All audit
and audit-related services are pre-approved by the Audit and Risk Management Committee.
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