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internal controls and disclosure controls, legal and regulatory compliance, ethics policy and
timeliness of filings with regulatory authorities, the independence and performance of the
Company’s external and internal auditors, the management of the Company’s risk, credit
worthiness, treasury plans and financial policy and whistleblower and complaint procedures. A
copy of the Audit Committee’s Terms of Reference is attached as Appendix A to this annual
information form.
The current members of the Audit Committee are Brian F. MacNeill (Chair), A. Charles Baillie,
Micheline Bouchard, Ruston Goepel and Pierre Y. Ducros. Each member of the Audit
Committee is independent and financially literate within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument
52-110 “Audit Committees” and the Board has determined that Brian MacNeill is an audit
committee financial expert and has accounting or related financial management expertise. The
following lists the relevant education and experience of the members of TELUS’ Audit
Committee that is relevant to his or her role on the committee.
Brian MacNeill chairs the Audit Committee. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Montana
State University and has over 35 years of experience in accounting having earned his Certified
Public Accounting designation (California) and his Chartered Accountant designation (Canada).
In 1995, Mr. MacNeill was made a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Alberta. Mr.
MacNeill served as Chief Executive Officer of Enbridge Inc. from 1990 until his retirement in
2001. Prior to that, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Enbridge and held numerous
financial positions with various Canadian companies.
A. Charles Baillie holds an Honours B.A. from Trinity College, University of Toronto and an
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Baillie served as Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of the Toronto-Dominion Bank from 1998 until his retirement in 2003. He is a Fellow of
The Institute of Canadian Bankers and has served on the audit committees of four other public
companies, including George Weston Limited and Canadian National Railway.
Micheline Bouchard holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Engineering Physics) and a Master
of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering) from Ecole Polytechnique. She has been the Chief
Executive Officer of ART Advanced Research Technologies since 2002 and prior to that, she
held senior executive positions at both Motorola Inc. and Motorola Canada Limited. Ms.
Bouchard has served on seven audit committees, including Sears Canada, Corby Distilleries and
Ford Canada, and served as chair for two of them.
Pierre Y. Ducros obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Université de Paris at Collège
Stanislas in Montréal and a Bachelor of Engineering (Communications) degree from McGill
University. Mr. Ducros was President and CEO of DMR Consulting Group, Inc. (Canada), an
information technology services company, which he co-founded in 1973. Mr. Ducros has also
held various management positions at IBM Canada Limited and serves on the board of a number
of other public companies.
Ruston E.T. Goepel holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia
and has over 35 years of experience in the investment industry. He is currently Senior Vice
President with Raymond James Financial Ltd. Mr. Goepel is a director of several public
companies, and currently serves as a member of the audit committee of Amerigo Resources Ltd.