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Enbridge Inc. has announced:

that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem its currently outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series 15 (Series 15 Shares) (TSX: ENB.PF.G) on September 1, 2020. As a result, subject to certain conditions, the holders of the Series 15 Shares have the right to convert all or part of their Series 15 Shares on a one-for-one basis into Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series 16 of Enbridge (Series 16 Shares) on September 1, 2020. Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series 15 Shares into Series 16 Shares will retain their Series 15 Shares.

The foregoing conversion right is subject to the conditions that: (i) if Enbridge determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 15 Shares outstanding after September 1, 2020, then all remaining Series 15 Shares will automatically be converted into Series 16 Shares on a one-for-one basis on September 1, 2020; and (ii) alternatively, if Enbridge determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 16 Shares outstanding after September 1, 2020, no Series 15 Shares will be converted into Series 16 Shares. There are currently 11,000,000 Series 15 Shares outstanding.

With respect to any Series 15 Shares that remain outstanding after September 1, 2020, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly fixed cumulative preferential cash dividends, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Enbridge. The new annual dividend rate applicable to the Series 15 Shares for the five-year period commencing on September 1, 2020 to, but excluding, September 1, 2025 will be 2.983 percent, being equal to the five-year Government of Canada bond yield of 0.303 percent determined as of today plus 2.68 percent in accordance with the terms of the Series 15 Shares.

With respect to any Series 16 Shares that may be issued on September 1, 2020, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly floating rate cumulative preferential cash dividends, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Enbridge. The dividend rate applicable to the Series 16 Shares for the three-month floating rate period commencing on September 1, 2020 to, but excluding, December 1, 2020 will be 0.70861 percent, based on the annual rate on three month Government of Canada treasury bills for the most recent treasury bills auction of 0.17 percent plus 2.68 percent in accordance with the terms of the Series 16 Shares (the Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate). The Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate will be reset every quarter.

Beneficial holders of Series 15 Shares who wish to exercise their right of conversion during the conversion period, which runs from August 2, 2020 until 5:00 p.m. (EST) on August 17, 2020, should communicate as soon as possible with their broker or other intermediary for more information. It is recommended that this be done well in advance of the deadline in order to provide the broker or other intermediary time to complete the necessary steps. Any notices received after this deadline will not be valid.

ENB.PF.G is a FixedReset, 4.40%+268, that commenced trading 2014-9-23 after being announced 2014-9-11. It is tracked by HIMIPref™ but is relegated to the Scraps – FixedReset (Discount) subindex on credit concerns.

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