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Corporate Governance

Director Material Relationship Standards
Introduction
Standard of Director Relationships
Materiality Standards
Other Director Relationships
Interpretation

1.   Introduction



The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Rogers Communications Inc. (the “Company”) has adopted these Director Material Relationship Standards for the purpose of assisting the Board in making determinations whether or not a direct or indirect business, commercial, banking, consulting, professional or charitable relationship that a director may have with the Company (which for the purposes of these Standards includes its subsidiaries) is a material relationship that could, in the view of the Board, reasonably interfere with the exercise of the director’s independent judgment.



2.   Standard of Director Relationships



Any business, commercial, industrial, banking, consulting, professional, charitable or service relationship that may exist between the Company and a director of the Company, or between the Company and an entity of which the director is a director, executive officer, partner or managing member, shall be in the ordinary course of business of the Company and on substantially the same terms as those prevailing at the time for comparable transactions with non-affiliated persons on an arm’s length basis.



3.   Materiality Standards



The following relationships will be considered to be material in respect of any director:



(a)  The director has, within the preceding 3 fiscal years of the Company, been a provider of consulting, professional, investment banking, advisory or other services to the Company and the total direct compensation of the director from the Company in respect of those services in each such fiscal year amounted to more than U.S. $100,000 (other than payments arising from acting in his or her capacity as a director of the Company including as a part-time Chair or Vice Chair of the Board or a committee of the Board).



(b)  The director has, within the preceding 3 fiscal years of the Company, been a director, executive officer, partner or managing member of an entity that has or had a business, commercial, industrial, banking, consulting, professional or service relationship with the Company and, pursuant to that relationship, the aggregate annual sales or billings from that entity to the Company, or from the Company to that entity, in each of the 3 most recently completed fiscal years of that entity, amounted to more than the greater of 2 percent of that entity’s consolidated gross revenues and U.S. $1,000,000.



4.   Other Director Relationships



If a director has any other direct or indirect relationship with the Company other than those set forth in 3(a) or (b) above the Board will make a determination whether that director has a material relationship with the Company based on a consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances.



5.   Interpretation



For the purposes of these Standards, the terms used herein shall have the following meanings:



(a)  entity” — includes a body corporate, a partnership, a trust, a joint venture or an unincorporated association or organization;



(b)  “subsidiary” — a body corporate is a subsidiary of another body corporate if (a) it is controlled by (i) that other body corporate, (ii) that other body corporate and one or more bodies corporate each of which is controlled by that body corporate, or (iii) two or more bodies corporate each of which is controlled by that other body corporate, or (b) it is a subsidiary of a body corporate that is a subsidiary of that other body corporate.