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  Waste Connections, Inc.
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  WOODBRIDGE
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  GUILLET EDWARD E
  Director
  Common Shares
  Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
  245 Summer Street
  Boston
  MA
  02110
  8000
  1481200.00
  258037421
  09/03/2024
  NYSE
  Common Shares
  06/12/2016
  Merger/Acquisition
  Waste Connections, Inc.
  N
  8000
  06/12/2016
  N/A
  Y
  09/03/2024
  /s/ Myra King, as a duly authorized representative of Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, as attorney-in-fact for Edward E. Guillet