2024 Annual Meeting FAQs

Hybrid meetings are meetings where participants can choose to attend in person or online via a live virtual webcast. All shareholders, whether they attend in-person or virtually, will be able to ask questions, vote and participate.

The 2024 Fortis Annual and Special Meeting will be a hybrid meeting to provide shareholders the option to attend in-person or virtually.

The 2024 Fortis Annual and Special Meeting will be held at the following location:

  • Fortis Place | Fortis Energy Centre, 4th Floor 5 Springdale Street St. John’s, NL Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:30 a.m. NDT

On arrival at the location above, all shareholders and appointees entitled to vote will be required to register with the Computershare representatives at the reception table.

Limited parking available.

Participants can access the virtual meeting platform via the following link and by entering the following password

To access the virtual meeting platform, participants will need an internet-connected device, such as a smartphone, tablet or computer. Your browser must be the latest version of either Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox (Internet Explorer is not supported).

To log in to the meeting, follow the instructions below as applicable to you:

  • If you are a registered shareholder and you have appointed yourself as proxyholder, enter the 15-digit control number on your proxy form as your username.
  • If you are a registered shareholder and you have appointed someone else as your proxyholder, or if you are a non-registered (beneficial) shareholder and you have appointed yourself as proxyholder or someone else as your proxyholder, the appointed proxyholder will receive an email notification from Computershare with a control number that will serve as their username.
  • If you wish to attend the meeting, but not participate, you can attend the meeting as a guest by clicking "I am a Guest" and completing the online form.

Once logged in, you will be directed to the meeting home page, where you can access meeting information, documents and the live webcast. Further details on how to log in are available in the Lumi User Guide found at the back of our Management Information Circular.

For information on how to ask a question, please see question 6.

For information on how to vote your shares, please see questions 10-14.

No, only the manner of engagement changes. A hybrid meeting enables all shareholders and guests to participate in the meeting regardless of their location.

Shareholders attending from remote locations will have the same opportunities to participate as those attending in person. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders will be allowed to vote online at the meeting (see question 12 for details on how to vote at the meeting).

Following a short management presentation, we will have 20 minutes allocated to the question-and-answer session with the Chair of our Board and management. See question 6 for details on how to ask a question.

In advance of the meeting Anyone can submit a question in advance of the meeting between April 25 and May 2, 2024, by sending an email to questions@fortisinc.com, or calling 1-833-940-2557 and leaving a voicemail with your question. Please specify in your email or voicemail that your question is for the Annual Meeting.

During the meeting For those attending in-person or virtually, only registered shareholders and duly appointed and registered proxyholders who have standing at the meeting will be able to address the meeting and ask questions during the formal conduct of business. If attending in-person, you may ask a question by raising your hand. To submit a question via the online meeting platform, click on the messaging tab at the top of your screen.

After the formal meeting After the formal meeting has concluded, there will be a short management presentation followed by a 20-minute question-and-answer session with the Chair of our Board and management where anyone is permitted to ask a question. Virtual attendees can submit questions online by clicking on the messaging tab at the top of your screen during the management presentation.

We will not restrict or filter legitimate questions and will do our best to address such questions. We may receive multiple questions of a similar theme from those submitting questions online via the virtual meeting platform. As such, your specific question may be paraphrased in the interests of efficiency and addressing as many questions as possible.

We have allocated 20 minutes for a question-and-answer period following the conclusion of the formal meeting. We aim to keep each question to 2 minutes to allow for as many questions as possible.

If we are unable to answer all questions within the allotted time, we will respond by posting all questions and answers on our website following the meeting.

Your control number is printed on your proxy form or voting information form or, if you consented to e-Delivery, it has been provided to you via e-mail.
If you are a registered shareholder or an employee plan participant and you cannot find your control number, please contact our transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company of Canada at 1-866-586-7638.

If you are a non-registered (beneficial shareholder) and you cannot find your control number, please contact your broker, bank, or other intermediary.

For technical support while attempting to log on to the meeting or during the meeting, you can select the support option from the login page of the virtual meeting platform or email support-ca@lumiglobal.com. Technical support is available during the meeting and for one hour before the meeting commences.

You will be asked to vote on at least four items of business:

  • Election of the directors
  • Appointment of the auditors
  • Vote, on an advisory basis, on executive compensation (say on pay)
  • Vote on new omnibus equity plan and related matters

These items of business are described on pages 11-14 of our Management Information Circular. Management is not aware of any other matters that may come before the Annual and Special Meeting.

You are entitled to receive notice of and vote at the meeting if you held common shares of Fortis as at the close of business on March 17, 2023 (the record date). If you acquired shares after this date, you can ask for your name to be included on the list of eligible shareholders until 10 days before the meeting as long as you have proof that you own the shares. To vote your shares acquired after the record date, send your proof of ownership to our transfer agent, Computershare, at service@computershare.com no later than the proxy voting cutoff of April 30, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. NDT.

Please note that non-registered (beneficial) holders must appoint themselves or a third-party as proxyholder with Computershare to participate in the online voting. Go to https://www.computershare.com/Fortis by 10:30 a.m. (NDT) on April 30, 2024 to register your proxyholder and provide the contact information required. Computershare will then confirm the registration and send an email notification with a login code to your proxyholder to use as a username. If you do not register yourself or a third-party as a proxyholder, your proxyholder will NOT be able to participate in the meeting and vote your shares.  

As of the record date, there were 493,004,759 common shares issued and outstanding. Each share entitles the holder to one vote on each of the four voting items.

Once you are successfully logged in to the virtual meeting platform and once voting has opened, the voting tab will appear. The resolutions and your available voting options will be visible under the voting tab on your screen. Simply click on your voting choice FOR/WITHHOLD or FOR/AGAINST to submit your vote.

If you have already voted by proxy prior to the meeting, you will still be able to vote at the meeting, either in person or virtually, and your vote on the day of the meeting will replace your vote by proxy.

No. All of the proxy voting methods available to shareholders from past years remain available. As in past years, we expect that the vast majority of votes will be cast in advance of the meeting by proxy through the various available methods, described on pages 10-12 of the Management Information Circular. Votes cast on the meeting day traditionally represent an extremely small percentage of all votes cast.

Shareholders who have questions about voting can contact Kingsdale Advisors at:

Yes. As described on page 10 of the Management Information Circular, if you change your mind about how you want to vote your shares, you can revoke your proxy in one of the following ways, or by any other means permitted by law. If you are a registered shareholder:

  • Vote again on the internet or by phone before 10:30 a.m. NDT on April 30, 2024.
  • Complete a proxy form with a later date than the form you originally submitted and mail it as soon as possible so that it is received before 10:30 a.m. NDT on April 30, 2024.
  • Send a written notice to our Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary so that it is received before 10:30 a.m. NDT on April 30, 2024.

You can also attend the meeting and change your vote. If you log on to the meeting using your control number, you can revoke all of your previously submitted proxies by voting your online ballot on any voting items.

If you are a non-registered (beneficial) shareholder and have submitted your voting instructions, follow the instructions provided by your broker, bank or other intermediary.

Digital copies of the reports are linked here:

Management Information Circular

Financial Statements and Accompanying MD&A

To request free printed copies of any of our documents, please email us at: investorrelations@fortisinc.com.

A replay of the meeting will be available on our website along with meeting materials, voting results, a transcript of the meeting and answers to questions submitted for the meeting.

We have chosen to hold our Annual and Special Meeting in a hybrid format this year to make our meeting as accessible as possible to all our shareholders. We intend to continue hosting with a hybrid format but are always interested in feedback.

We must have a quorum at the beginning of the meeting for it to proceed and to transact business. This means we must have two people present who together hold, or represent by proxy, at least 25% of our shares issued and outstanding as of the record date (March 15 2024).

We have retained Kingsdale Advisors as our proxy solicitation agent at a cost of $44,100 for their services and will reimburse them for any related expenses. Solicitation is mainly by mail, but you may also be contacted by phone, e-mail, internet or fax by a Fortis director, officer or employee or by Kingsdale Advisors.