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    Scotiabank Announces Election of Directors

    TORONTO, April 4, 2017 /CNW/ - Scotiabank announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 1, 2017 were elected as directors of the Bank. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at its Annual Meeting of Shareholders earlier today in Toronto, Ontario are set out below.

    Election of Directors

    On a vote by ballot, each of the following 15 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of the Bank:

    Nominee

    Votes For

    % For

    Votes Withheld

    % Withheld

    Nora A. Aufreiter

    682,370,921

    99.74%

    1,810,479

    0.26%

    Guillermo E. Babatz

    682,338,060

    99.73%

    1,843,340

    0.27%

    Scott B. Bonham

    682,538,636

    99.76%

    1,642,763

    0.24%

    Charles H. Dallara

    682,284,260

    99.72%

    1,897,140

    0.28%

    William R. Fatt

    682,699,728

    99.78%

    1,481,671

    0.22%

    Tiff Macklem

    682,569,380

    99.76%

    1,612,020

    0.24%

    Thomas C. O'Neill

    682,130,898

    99.70%

    2,050,501

    0.30%

    Eduardo Pacheco

    671,814,173

    98.19%

    12,367,226

    1.81%

    Brian J. Porter

    682,744,567

    99.79%

    1,436,833

    0.21%

    Una M. Power

    682,477,383

    99.75%

    1,704,016

    0.25%

    Aaron W. Regent

    678,538,768

    99.18%

    5,642,631

    0.82%

    Indira V. Samarasekera

    682,314,940

    99.73%

    1,866,459

    0.27%

    Susan L. Segal

    682,250,127

    99.72%

    1,931,272

    0.28%

    Barbara S. Thomas

    680,632,409

    99.48%

    3,548,991

    0.52%

    L. Scott Thomson

    678,043,835

    99.10%

    6,137,565

    0.90%

     

    Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today will be published shortly on www.scotiabank.com, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

    About Scotiabank
    Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 88,000 employees and assets of $887 billion (as at January 31, 2017), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.

    SOURCE Scotiabank

    For further information: For media enquiries only: Heather Armstrong, Public, Corporate and Government Affairs, Scotiabank, (416) 933-3250, (647) 632-4524, heather.armstrong@scotiabank.com