TORONTO, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Claude Mongeau, president and chief executive officer of CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI), will address the Toronto Board of Trade on May 15, 2012.

Mongeau will discuss CN's business agenda, how operational and service excellence creates value for customers and shareholders, and how the company's sustainability agenda is tied to delivering goods responsibly and reducing the railway's carbon footprint.

Mongeau will be available to reporters briefly following his remarks.

Time: Mongeau will start his speech at 12.30 p.m. Eastern Time, May 15.

Location: Toronto Board of Trade Downtown Centre, 77 Adelaide Street West, Toronto. Pool sound will be available.

CN - Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries - spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information on CN, visit the company's website at www.cn.ca/en/index.htm.

SOURCE CN