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A. Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as
those controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Registrant in
reports filed or submitted by it under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.
The Registrant’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have evaluated the Registrant’s disclosure
controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report and have determined that such disclosure
controls and procedures were effective. A discussion of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures can be found in its
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the fiscal year ended February 28,
2015, included in Exhibit No. 1.3 to this Annual Report, under the heading “Disclosure Controls and Procedures and Internal
Controls - Disclosure Controls and Procedures”.
B. Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the fiscal year ended
February 28, 2015, included in Exhibit No. 1.3 to this Annual Report, under the heading “Disclosure Controls and Procedures
and Internal Controls - Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”.
C. Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm
The attestation report of Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) is included in EY’s report, dated March 27, 2015, to the
shareholders of the Registrant, which accompanies the Registrant’s audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year
ended February 28, 2015, filed as Exhibit 1.2 to this Annual Report.
D. Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the fiscal year ended
February 28, 2015, included in Exhibit No. 1.3 to this Annual Report, under the heading “Disclosure Controls and Procedures
and Internal Controls – Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”.
E. Notice of Pension Fund Blackout Period
The Registrant was not required by Rule 104 of Regulation BTR to send any notice to any of its directors or executive
officers during the fiscal year ended February 28, 2015.
F. Audit Committee Financial Expert
The Registrant’s Board of Directors has determined that Barbara Stymiest, an individual serving on the Audit and Risk
Management Committee of the Registrant’s Board of Directors, is an audit committee financial expert, within the meaning of
General Instruction B(8)(b) of Form 40-F.
The Commission 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 of Directors who do not carry this
designation or affect the duties, obligations or liability of any other member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee or
Board of Directors.
G. Code of Ethics
The Registrant’s Board of Directors has adopted a code of ethics (the “Code”) that applies to all directors, officers and
employees.
During the fiscal year ended February 28, 2015, the Registrant amended the Code to provide that adherence to, and
acknowledgment of, the Code is a condition of employment, expand the responsibilities of managers under the Code, require