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Officer of the Toronto-Dominion Bank from 1998 until his retirement in 2003. He is a Fellow of
The Institute of Canadian Bankers and currently serves as the Chair of the audit committee of
George Weston Limited and as a member of the audit committee of 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 served as President
and CEO of ART Advanced Research Technologies, a biomedical company, from 2002 until
July 2006 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 banking 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.
Audit, Audit related and non-audit services
All requests for non-prohibited audit, audit related and non-audit services provided by TELUS’
external auditor and its affiliates to TELUS are required to be pre-approved by the Audit
Committee of TELUS’ Board of Directors. To enable this, TELUS has implemented a process
by which all requests for services involving the External Auditor are routed for review by the VP
Risk Management and Chief Internal Auditor to validate that the requested service is a non-
prohibited service and to verify that there is a compelling business reason for the request. If the
request passes this review, it is then forwarded to the CFO for further review. Pending the
CFO’s affirmation, the request is then presented to the Audit Committee for its review,
evaluation and pre-approval or denial at its next scheduled quarterly meeting. If the timing of
the request is urgent, it is provided to the Audit Committee Chair for his review, evaluation and
pre-approval or denial on behalf of the Audit Committee (with the full committee’s review at the
next scheduled quarterly meeting). Throughout the year, the Audit Committee monitors the
actual versus approved expenditure for each of the approved requests.
The following table is a summary of billing by Deloitte & Touche, LLP, as external auditors of
TELUS, during the period from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006:
Type of work
Deloitte & Touche %
Audit fees $3,757,244 94.11
Audit-related fees $162,000 4.06
Tax fees $72,763 1.83
All other fees -- --
Total $3,992,007 100.0
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