DBRS Morningstar Assigns Rating of A (low) with a Stable Trend to TransCanada PipeLines Limited’s $2.0 Billion Medium-Term Notes Offering

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) assigned a rating of A (low) with Stable trend to TransCanada Pipelines Limited’s (TCPL or the Company) $2.0 billion 3.8% Medium-Term Notes offering due April 5, 2027 (the Notes). The rating assigned to the Notes is based on the ratings of other already-outstanding series of the Notes of the Company.

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All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodology is Rating Companies in the Pipeline and Diversified Energy Industry,
DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Commercial Paper Liquidity Support for Non-Bank Issuers, DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Rating Corporate Holding Companies and Their Subsidiaries and DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Preferred Share and Hybrid Security Criteria for Corporate Issuers, which can be found on dbrsmorningstar.com under Methodologies & Criteria.

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