Board & Committee Meetings

The Board's Guidelines [PDF, 47 Kb] recognize the importance of meeting without management present, and Board agendas are structured to provide the opportunity. There are also opportunities on each agenda for the Board to meet privately with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Although not a Board member, the CEO attends all meetings and has access to the same information as any Director, except when relating to the CEO's performance, as appropriate.

Number of meetings attended in fiscal 2009

The following table summarizes Board and standing committee meeting attendance by Director for the year ended March 31, 2009.

	Board (1)	Executive Committee	Capital Projects Committee (2)	Audit & Risk Management Committee	Human Resources Committee	Corporate Governance Committee
Total Number of Meetings (3)	14	1	2	7	4	3
K. Baird	14	-	2	-	2	-
J. Brown	10	-	-	-	1	-
P. Busby	12	-	-	-	-	1
W. Costuros	12	1	-	5	1	2
J. Drance	13	1	2	-	1	3
B. Eaton (4)	6	1	-	4	1	2
T. McVicar	12	-	-	7	-	1
N. Olewiler	12	-	-	3	4	-
P. Powell	12	-	2	7	1	-
W. Saponja	14	1	2	7	3	-
D. Triggs	9	-	-	-	2	2
M. Umedaly (5)	14	1	2	6	3	3

(1) Includes Annual Retreat
(2) Committee formed November 19, 2008
(3) Directors may receive only one meeting fee per day although more than one meeting may be attended
(4) Resigned December 18, 2008
(5) Not appointed as a member but attends all meetings as an ex-officio representative in his capacity as Chair

The Board, Capital Projects Committee, Audit & Risk Management Committee, Human Resources Committee and Corporate Governance Committee schedule four regular committee meetings annually. Additional meetings are held as required.

The Executive Committee only meets under special circumstances.

Subsidiaries

Certain Directors serve on the Boards of subsidiaries and the number of meetings held are shown below:

	Board	Audit & Risk Management Committee	Strategy Session
Powerex Corp.	5	5	1
Powertech Labs Inc.	7	–	–

Last Modified: Oct 2, 2009