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Shareholders' Equity
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Shareholders' Equity  
Shareholders' Equity

Note 20 - Shareholders’ Equity

(a)Share Capital

The Company’s authorized capital stock includes an unlimited number of common shares (192,701,088 common shares issued and outstanding as at June 30, 2025) having no par value and preferred shares issuable in series (issued - nil).

Changes in share capital for the periods ended June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were as follows:

Number

  

  

of shares

  

  

Amount

 

Balance at January 1, 2024

 

192,175,042

$

5,728.2

Exercise of stock options

71,864

3.6

Vesting of restricted share units

18,340

2.7

Dividend reinvestment plan

287,449

34.6

Balance at December 31, 2024

192,552,695

$

5,769.1

Balance at January 1, 2025

192,552,695

$

5,769.1

Exercise of stock options

59,249

5.5

Vesting of restricted share units

32,073

5.5

Dividend reinvestment plan

57,071

9.1

Balance at June 30, 2025

192,701,088

$

5,789.2

(b)Dividends

For the three months ended June 30, 2025, the Company declared dividends of $0.38 per common share (Q2 2024 – $0.36). For the six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company declared dividends of $0.76 per common share (H1 2024 – $0.72). Dividends paid in cash and through the Company’s Dividend Reinvestment Plan (“DRIP”) were as follows:

For the three months ended

For the six months ended

  

June 30, 

June 30, 

  

    

2025

    

2024

  

  

2025

  

  

2024

  

Cash dividends

$

67.0

$

60.3

$

137.2

$

119.2

DRIP dividends

 

5.9

 

9.3

 

9.1

 

19.8

$

72.9

$

69.6

$

146.3

$

139.0