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Bill Ackman, foreground, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Hunter Harrison, former CEO of Canadian National Railway, leave the stage after a town hall meeting Feb. 6, 2012, in Toronto.
Bill Ackman, foreground, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Hunter Harrison, former CEO of Canadian National Railway, leave the stage after a town hall meeting Feb. 6, 2012, in Toronto.
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