A key announcement for 4-H Canada this week at Canadian Western Agribition.

CN is committing $600,000 to LEAD - the new annual 4H Canada Leadership Excellence Awards of Distinction.

Sean Finn is CN’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Services and Chief Legal Officer:

"We're setting up a scholarship fund to allow 4H members to get a scholarship of $5 thousand per year for four years, in four areas which leads to developing leadership in their post-secondary schooling. And secondly, which is just as important, is a second fund which is a farm safety fund," Finn said.

Cameron Choquette from Saskatchewan is one of the first four recipients for the LEAD funding -- in the area of Community Engagement and Communications.