David Macdonald says one way to help shrink the inequality gap is for the federal government to tax top earners at a higher rate DUHHH???

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ceo-income-pay-canadian-worker-1.4462496

Canada's top CEOs earn 200 times an average worker's salary: report

Average yearly compensation for top 100 CEOs is now $10.4 million

By Sophia Harris, CBC News Posted: Jan 02, 2018 5:00 AM ET


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David Amos

I dare not say too much for fear of CBC blocking me so lets just call my comments in the article found below Round 2 for today

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/potash-agrium-nutrien-merger-1.4469690

  

Michael Unsern

Having spoken to a large number of CEO's, I'd have to say that the assessment that these people offer "rare and sought after talent" is mostly crap. A few of them offer that, to be sure, but the thing that most of them seem to offer is "being connected to somebody already known on the board"

David Amos

@Michael Unsern "being connected to somebody already known on the board"

YUP

Methinks Don Walker, Guy Laurence, Doug Suttles, James Smith and their many minions should remember me. N'esy Pas mr Prime Ministe Trudeau "The Younger" and Minister Morneau?

David Amos

@David Amos I know for a fact that Sophia Harris and the ghost of Paul Cellucci the former MA Governor then US Ambassador and lastly VP of Magna must recall the Hard Copy of two lawsuits I sent them (signature required) on July 16th, 2002. N'esy Pas Ralph Goodale?

David Amos

@Michael Unsern "Having spoken to a large number of CEO's, I'd have to say that the assessment that these people offer "rare and sought after talent" is mostly crap."

Google two names David Amos Sophia Harris

Then give the author of this piece of work a call if you wish to hear more crap.

David Amos

@Jason Roskina "when will they learn that reality tv is not life and celebrities are not important"

The awful truth is in reality most folks simply don't care so the obvious malice goes on and on.

Andrew Hebda (NS)
No person contributes to the betterment of society in a way that justifies such salaries.

David Amos

@Andrew Hebda (NS) Never mind society. Why do the shareholders such as you and I allow allow such nonsense?. These are publicly held companies thriving off our pension plans etc

 
JimWBrennan

'Earn' is an interesting choice of words. Did kings and pontiffs earn their incomes back in the dark ages? Are we genetically disposed to being duped by huge egos and endless hubris?

 
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David Amos
@JimWBrennan "Are we genetically disposed to being duped by huge egos and endless hubris?"

YUP

I seen it hundreds of time in my life. and times. For instance watch a lawyer or whomtever pull into a gas station or a convenience store with a fancy car at the same time as a poor farmer or whomever in with an old truck and watch the difference in service they get even though they are paying the same price for the gas and the bread or whatever.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/potash-agrium-nutrien-merger-1.4469690

PotashCorp-Agrium merger finally official, Nutrien starts trading today

Company to begin trading under ticker symbol NTR today

CBC News Posted: Jan 02, 2018 8:44 AM ET

   

74 Comments

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David Amos

I asked the PotashCorp dudes long ago if they had mentioned my concerns to Agrium and received no reply. However I made certain that everybody knew I got reply from Jac Nasser the former Chair of BHP on September 14th, 2010 that had made Harper stop BHP from its hostile takeover of Potashcorp. It appears to me that the CEOs anf board of these publiclly held companies wish to forget is that they are playing their wicked boardroom games with OUR money. Well "Jac the Knife" is recently gone from BHP but I am still haunting the boardrooms and the courtrooms as well.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/21/jac-knife-nasser-bhp-billiton-chairman/
 

Don Hamilton

@David Amos huh?????

  

Clifford Grover

It does not matter at all in Canada, because of our nature to export raw material and make a quick buck on the spot. So if a Canadian wants to buy potassium nitrate a high value nutrient, the process will be as follow. Dig up the potassium sulphate in Saskatchewan, ship it to China at a couple of hundred dollars a ton and have it refined and upgraded there. Then reimport it in Canada at the cost of thousands of dollars per ton. Way to go Canada?? All while our graduates in chemistry are serving coffee at starbucks?

David Amos 

@Clifford Grover Perhaps I should remind folks that I ran in Fundy Royal twice first in 2004 and again in 2015. Back then Potash Corp was thriving in the Sussex area. So much so that in fact it built a new mine. However that one never went into production and as everybody was laid off the new mine was mothballed after the election and the old one was allowed to flood. Go figure why my debate on Rogers TV was the most watched in Canada other than the leaders debate while CBC denied that I was on a ballot for the fifth time.


  
Carm Germano

It's not exactly an IPO. Agrium holders will get 2.23 shares in the new company while Potash holders will get 0.4 shares. The opening price of $65 was calculated based on weightings of market cap. No one is obligated to buy at $65 and no trade takes place until a matching bid and ask occur. I just checked and about 68,000 shares have traded and the current price is about $65.44 so the initial price was set quite accurately.

David Amos

@Carm Germano Methinks that itt ain't over until the Fat Lady sings and it appears to me that she has not even headed for the stage yet.

 

donna gregoire

...Morneau already got in on the IPO.....

Alf. Mielke

@Carm Germano
No he is just interested in controlling or running their pension funds for now.

David Amos

@Alf. Mielke Methinks many true word is said in jest

  

Greg Gore (formerly Greggore)

Forget the minimum wage raising, cap the top end!

No one needs to make more than a million a year!

Douglas Fowler

@Greg Gore (formerly Greggore) Dont be envious! Get an education and work hard and you too can be a CEO (of a lemon aid stand)

David Amos

@Douglas Fowler God forbid that your lemon aid stand is successful enough to go public and becomes even more profitable because soon no doubt a hostile takeover will appear on the horizon and you will be the odd man out. Never forget what happened Mr Dell and his fine computer company.

Greg Gore (formerly Greggore)

@Douglas Fowler - I was a CEO for 10 years. I have an education....and yes, I work hard.

No one needs to make a million a year, let alone 25 or 100.

Don Hamilton

@Greg Gore (formerly Greggore) I'm a male model and a Rhodes Scholar.

 

Irv Millar

The standard globalist conquest. Aided and abetted by the minority of Canadians, our captains of commerce and power wielders in all levels of government, for the profits to go out of the province/country to buy up the rest of Canada with our money upon their ubiquitous return. Our wealth plundered. Crown Assets gone. Canada gone.

David Amos

@Irv Millar "Our wealth plundered. Crown Assets gone. Canada gone.'

Long ago Paul Hellyer our oldest member of the Privy Counsel wrote a book called "Good Bye Canada" obviously he was not joking.

  

Peter Kay

Once again our resources in Saskatchewan are being taken over by foreign entities with the majority of the cash flow leaving our province. Thanks Brad.

David Amos

@Peter Kay "our resources in Saskatchewan are being taken over by foreign entities"

Methinks the same statement holds true for the folks in New Brunswick N'esy Pas?

  

Peter Kay

I thought we were in a free enterprise province, not a monopoly corporation base. I guess this is another Badlie Wall ideological nightmare.

Steve Bannatyne

@Peter Kay Huh?! Free enterprise is welcome in all resource sectors of Saskatchewan.

David Amos

@Steve Bannatyne Say Hey to Brad Wall for me will ya?

  

Brenda Estile

Essentially a monopoly in the industry.

Colin Rasmussen

@Brenda Estile

They are not the only company selling fertilizer products, so your statement is incorrect.

David Amos

@Colin Rasmussen True

 

Daniel McKay

Now they can claim they're too big to fail. How did "competition" become such a dirty word?

Maria Rose

@Henri Bianchi We know that current agricultural practices are unsustainable and destroy the soil and water supplies. So hopefully we can get to the point of not using artificial fertilizer.

David Amos

@Maria Rose I concur

  

Rob Frost

How many current employees of these 2 companies will this new company keep. Usually the employees lose in mergers like this.

David Amos

@Rob Frost "How many current employees of these 2 companies will this new company keep. Usually the employees lose in mergers like this"

Trust that nobody cares except the people out of work.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/potash-agrium-nutrien-merger-1.4469690
 

PotashCorp-Agrium merger finally official, Nutrien starts trading today

Company to begin trading under ticker symbol NTR today

CBC News Posted: Jan 02, 2018 8:44 AM ET

Agrium president & CEO Chuck Magro will head the new, combined company. (Larry MacDougal/Canadian Press)

The merger of two of Canada's biggest fertilizer names became official on Tuesday, as shares in Nutrien Ltd. will commence trading on the TSX on Jan. 2, born out of the combined ashes of PotashCorp and Agrium.

"Today we are proud to launch Nutrien, a company that will forge a unique position within the agriculture industry," the new company's CEO Chuck Magro said in a news release.

Magro was the CEO of Agrium in 2016 when a tie-up with rival fertilizer PotashCorp of Saskatchewan was first proposed.

Saskatoon-based PotashCorp is one of the world's leading suppliers of potash and a major producer of other fertilizing minerals. Calgary-based Agrium, meanwhile, was a leader in other commodities and had an extensive network of retail operations.

The deal worked its way through a Byzantine series of shareholder and regulatory approvals before finally becoming official this morning.

The combined company has more than 1,500 farm retail centres, and employs more than 20,000 people across operations in 14 countries — but will remain headquartered in Saskatoon.

Original Agrium shareholders received 2.23 shares in Nutrien for every share they had in Agrium. PotashCorp shareholders, meanwhile, received 0.4 new shares for every old one.

Shares in the new company began trading on stock exchanges in Toronto and New York a little after 9:30 a.m. eastern time on Tuesday morning. The stock, which trades under the ticker symbol NTR, opened at $65.23 in Toronto before jumping up a little and then slumping down to about $65.05 a share in Toronto near midday.

The ticker symbols for the old companies, POT and AGU, respectively, have been halted. And both will eventually be phased out. After they have been inactive for more than one calendar year, both ticker symbols will be up for grabs by other companies — and POT is likely to be an appealing moniker for one of Canada's many upstart marijuana companies.

David Amos I asked the PotashCorp dudes long ago if they had mentioned my concerns to Agrium and received no reply. However I made certain that everybody knew I got reply from Jac Nasser the former Chair of BHP on September 14th, 2010 that had made Harper stop BHP from its hostile takeover of Potashcorp. It appears to me that the CEOs anf board of these publiclly held companies wish to forget is that they are playing their wicked boardroom games with OUR money. Well "Jac the Knife" is recently gone from BHP but I am still haunting the boardrooms and the courtrooms as well.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/21/jac-knife-nasser-bhp-billiton-chairman/

David Amos
@Clifford Grover Perhaps I should remind folks that I ran in Fundy Royal twice first in 2004 and again in 2015. Back then Potash Corp was thriving in the Sussex area. So much so that in fact it built a new mine. However that one never went into production and as everybody was laid off the new mine was mothballed after the election and the old one was allowed to flood. Go figure why my debate on Rogers TV was the most watched in Canada other than the leaders debate while CBC denied that I was on a ballot for the fifth time.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/potash-agrium-merger-1.3757953

Potash Corp., Agrium agree to merger that would create $36B agriculture giant

Deal comes as fertilizer industry struggles with plummeting prices, down over 80% in 8 years

CBC News Posted: Sep 12, 2016 7:12 AM ET

  A glut of potash on the world market has caused prices to plunge and led to layoffs and mine closures across the industry.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium Inc. of Calgary have agreed to merge in a deal that would create a global agricultural giant with an enterprise value of $36 billion US.

The deal would bring together Saskatoon-based PotashCorp's huge fertilizer mines with Agrium's extensive global direct-to-farmer retail network to create an agricultural colossus.

• PotashCorp, Agrium in merger talks
• PotashCorp suspends N.B. mine, cuts 430 jobs

The new firm would be the world's No. 1 producer of potash and No. 2 producer of nitrogen fertilizer with operations in 18 countries and more than 20,000 employees worldwide.

Under terms of the proposed deal, existing Potash shareholders would get 0.4 shares in the new company for every Potash share they own. Agrium shareholders would see their shares converted into 2.23 shares in the new and as yet unnamed company, which would be headquartered in Saskatoon but also have offices in Calgary.

At those ratios, Potash shareholders would own 52 per cent of the new company, while Agrium owners would hold the other 48 per cent. The deal is expected to close in mid-2017.

"I look at the strategic fit and I look at combining the world's largest fertilizer with the world's largest agricultural retailer," said Chuck Magro, the CEO of Agrium and the man who would have the same role at the new company. "That makes an awful lot of sense to me."

• Potash suspends Picadilly mine

Shares in both companies were largely unchanged on the TSX on Monday, but both stocks saw jumps in their share prices earlier this month when rumours of a merger started to circulate.

"This was the rare deal where both shares went up," said David Baskin, president of Baskin Wealth Management. "I think that's because investors saw benefits for both."

Tough agricultural market

The proposed deal comes as the fertilizer industry struggles with a steep drop in prices in recent years following a ramp-up of production and the breakup of a Russia-Belarus potash trading cartel in 2013.

PotashCorp reported an average realized price in the second quarter of $154 US per tonne compared with $273 per tonne a year ago, and well off the 2008 peak of around $900 a tonne — a drop of more than 80 per cent in eight years.

• Potash profit falls 50% in last quarter of 2016

Analysts expect the combined company would be better able to control fertilizer output and may lead to mine closures.

Potash companies have already made moves this year to cut costs and production, with PotashCorp shutting its recently opened Picadilly mine in New Brunswick in January and temporarily closing some Saskatchewan mines. U.S.-based Mosaic Co. has closed its potash mine near Colonsay, Sask., until market conditions improve.

Earlier consolidation attempts

The industry has looked for consolidation in the past, with PotashCorp pushing for an $8.7-billion US takeover of K+S Group last year that was rebuffed by the German fertilizer group.

PotashCorp itself was the target of a $38.6-billion US takeover bid by BHP Billiton in 2010, but the Canadian government ultimately blocked the offer as not having enough net benefit for Canada.

Analysts expect the deal to face less scrutiny than the BHP proposal because both companies are Canadian, but it will still have to go through regulatory and Competition Bureau approvals.

The Exchange

Potash merger

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Potash merger6:11

While the all-Canadian nature of the tie-up might please regulators on one front, the deal won't be without regulatory hurdles.

The combined company would control about 60 per cent of North America's potash, up from 50 per cent currently and at "a level that could prompt asset divestitures," TD Securities analyst Greg Barnes said. "We believe that any forced divestitures of potash assets would meaningfully reduce the rationale for the transaction."

Others noted the deal will have problems in the U.S., too as the merger would leave just two major companies in North America that produce potash — the Agrium/Potash venture, and U.S. firm Mosaic.

"This deal has some real antitrust concerns," said Seth Bloom, a U.S. justice department veteran who is now at Bloom Strategic Consulting.

Farmer concerned 

The merger is a concern for at least one farmer in Saskatchewan.

Laurent Denis has been farming in St. Denis for 35 years and said he uses potash on his farm. The community is located about 40 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

Farmer Laurent Denis says consumers should be worried the merger will lead to higher prices. (CBC)

Denis suspects the merger will lead to higher prices for consumers.

"The merging of those two large corporations is never good news for the consumer, Denis said. "It certainly will not drive the price down, that's for sure. I can almost guarantee."

He compared the merger with the wheat pool forming into Viterra in 2007, and said the Canadian consumer should be worried about the loss of more member-based organizations.

"These large corporations, whose interest is solely the shareholder and their profit, have no regard really for the consumer, and that is my biggest concern."

The Saskatchewan government formed PotashCorp in 1975 as a Crown corporation before it was privatized in 1989.

Agrium was founded in 1931 as part of Cominco and became a publicly traded company in 1993.

With files from The Canadian Press and Reuters
https://www.nutrien.com/what-we-do/leadership/board-directors

Board of Directors

Jochen Tilk

Executive Chair

Jochen Tilk is Executive Chair of Nutrien. Previously, he was President & Chief Executive Officer of PotashCorp. Prior to joining PotashCorp, he was President and CEO of Inmet Mining Corp. Mr. Tilk is a mining engineer and holds a Master's degree in engineering from the University of Aachen in Germany.

Derek Pannell

Lead Independent Director

Mr. Pannell is the Lead Independent Director of Nutrien. Previously, he served as Chairman of the Board of Agrium. Mr. Pannell is also Board Chair of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners Limited. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Noranda Inc. and Falconbridge Limited.

Christopher Burley

Director

Mr. Burley is a Corporate Director and former Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Energy for Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. He is the Vice Chairman and a director of Westjet Airlines Ltd. and a former non-executive Chairman of the board of directors of Parallel Energy Inc. Mr. Burley is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Education Program and holds the ICD.D designation.

Maura Clark

Director

Ms. Clark was the former President of Direct Energy Business, the commercial and industry energy business unit of Direct Energy L.P. Ms. Clark holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fortis Inc. and is a former director of Elizabeth Arden, Inc.

John Estey

Director

Mr. Estey served as Chairman of the Board of PotashCorp. He is also Chairman of S&C Electric Company, a global provider of equipment and services for electric power systems. He is a Director of Southwire Company and the American Writers Museum as well as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum.

David Everitt

Director

Mr. Everitt is the Chair of the Board and former interim Chief Executive Officer of Harsco Corporation.  He recently retired as President, Agricultural Division for North America, Australia, Asian and Global Tractor Sourcing, Turf Products and Technology for Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois. He is also a director of Brunswick Corporation and Allison Transmission Holdings Inc., and serves on the board of the National Business Aviation Association in Washington, DC.

Russell Girling

Director

Mr. Girling is a Director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransCanada Corporation and TransCanada PipeLines Limited. He is the former Chair and Chief Executive Officer of TC Pipelines, GP Inc., former Chair of TransCanada Power, L.P., former director of Bruce Power Inc., and former director of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Fund. He is a member of the U.S. National Petroleum Council and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Petroleum Institute.

Gerald Grandey

Director

Mr. Grandey was former Chief Executive Officer and board member of Cameco Corporation. He is Chair of Rare Element Resources Ltd., Chairman Emeritus of the World Nuclear Association and a member of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. He also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the University of Saskatchewan’s Edwards School of Business, the Board of Governors of the Colorado School of Mines Foundation and the Advisory Board of Kreos Aviation.

Miranda Hubbs

Director

Ms. Hubbs was the former Executive Vice President and Managing Director of McLean Budden Limited and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation, the Canadian Red Cross, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, and is a former director of Spectra Energy Corp.

Alice Laberge

Director

Ms. Laberge is a Corporate Director and the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Fincentric Corporation. She was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. She is a director of the Royal Bank of Canada, Russel Metals Inc. and the B.C. Cancer Foundation and has served as a director of Delta Hotels Ltd. and Catalyst Paper Corporation. Ms. Laberge is the past Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Consuelo Madere

Director

Ms. Madere is the President and Founder of Proven Leader Advisory, LLC, and a former executive officer of Monsanto Company. Ms. Madere is a member of the Latin Corporate Directors Association as well as the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Louisiana State University Honors College.

Chuck Magro

President & Chief Executive Officer

Chuck Magro is President and Chief Executive Officer of Nutrien. He was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Agrium. He joined Agrium following a productive career with NOVA Chemicals. Mr. Magro plays an active role on the boards of Canpotex Limited, the International Fertilizer Association and the International Plant Nutrition Institute. He also serves as chair of The Fertilizer Institute and the Nutrients for Life Foundation. 

Keith Martell

Director

Mr. Martell is Chief Executive Officer and a Director of First Nations Bank of Canada. He is a director of River Cree Enterprises Ltd., serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the University of Saskatchewan’s Edwards School of Business and is a trustee of Primrose Lake Trust. Mr. Martell is a former director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada and The North West Company Inc., and a former trustee of the North West Company Fund.

The Honourable Anne McLellan, P.C.

Director

Ms. McLellan is a Director of the Edmonton Community Foundation and Senior Advisor at the law firm of Bennett Jones LLP. She also serves on the Board of Cameco Corporation, and formerly served on the Board of Nexen Inc.

Aaron Regent

Director

Mr. Regent is the Founding Partner of Magris Resources Inc. and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Niobec Inc. He was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Barrick Gold Corporation. Mr. Regent was Senior Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Brookfield Infrastructure Group, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Falconbridge Limited. Mr. Regent is a member of CPA Ontario and a Director of The Bank of Nova Scotia.

Mayo Schmidt

Director

Mr. Schmidt is a Director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro One Limited and the former President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Viterra Inc. He is a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executive Officers and formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Global Transportation Hub Authority.



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For the folks that don't ask Johnny "Never Been Good" Baird about this
email and conversation with the Boyz from Brazil in 2013

http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-brazilian.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/13/jean-chretien-steals-spotlight-at-liberal-rally-for-justin-trudeau.html

Jean Chretien steals spotlight at Liberal rally for Justin Trudeau
Rousing speech by former prime minister slams Tories over Syrian
refugee crisis and Thomas Mulcair over Quebec separation.

 By: Ben Spurr Staff Reporter, Published on Sun Sep 13 2015

"Chrétien saved some of his harshest remarks for Mulcair’s
“irresponsible” promise to repeal the Clarity Act — a law that
Chrétien’s government passed in 2000 — which states that a “clear
majority” of Quebecers would have to vote in favour of separation in
order for the province to secede. Scrapping the law could lead to a
referendum being decided by a simple majority of 50 per cent plus one.

Chrétien charged that some of the 59 Quebec MPs the NDP elected in
2011’s so-called “Orange Wave” were separatists and accused the party
of trying to “pander” to people who want to break up the country. He
concluded by shouting “Vive le Canada!” to raucous applause.

The former prime minister’s speech, much of which appeared to be
unscripted, lasted more than 20 minutes, while the current Liberal
leader only spoke for about 11. At one point, Chrétien apologized for
running long, to which Trudeau responded, “You’ve earned it, Jean.”

When Trudeau’s turn came, he also hammered the NDP on the Clarity Act,
accusing Mulcair of playing politics with national unity in order to
“to gain a few votes from separatists.”

“Mulcair, he wants to roll the dice. He wants to put separation back
on the table and turn the clock back 20 years,” Trudeau said.

“I don’t know about you, but I think that any prime minister, or
anyone who wants to be prime minister, should be ready to fight to
keep Canada together. They shouldn’t make it easier to tear it apart.”

Earlier on Sunday, in anticipation of the Liberal line of attack,
Mulcair said Chrétien was in no position to lecture him on the risks
of Quebec separation. He reminded his audience at a campaign stop in
Vancouver that Chrétien was prime minister when the “No” side won the
1995 Quebec referendum with a mere 50.58 per cent of the vote.

“Jean Chrétien almost lost the country,” Mulcair said. “He brought us
to the brink in 1995. And now he’s trying to revive quarrels of the
past because he sees a political advantage for himself in that.”

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Mentors 2009

Counsel, Bennett Jones LLP, and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
and Cabinet Minister; bridges both the public policy and the business
worlds.

The Honourable A. Anne McLellan, P.C., O.C. joined Bennett Jones LLP
in its Edmonton office in July 2006 following a rich career in
provincial and federal politics. Anne McLellan provides strategic
advice to the firm and its clients. In May 2006, she was appointed
Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Alberta in the
newly established Institute for United States Policy Studies.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Nexen, an independent,
Canadian-based global energy company, Agrium, a global producer and
marketer of agricultural nutrients and industrial products and a major
retail supplier of agricultural products and services, Cameco, the
world's largest uranium producer and Edmonton Regional Airport
Authority, a financially independent, non-share corporation charged
with managing the regions four airports. Among her many community
commitments, she also sits on the Board of the Royal Alexandra
Hospital Charitable Foundation, the Community Outreach Committee for
the Lois Hole Hospital for Women, the National Strategy Council for
the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and is Chair of the Friends of
the Legal Resource Centre, an organization that promotes access to
justice.

Anne McLellan served four terms as the Liberal Member of Parliament
for Edmonton Centre from October 1993 to January 2006. She served as
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and as the first Minister of Public
Safety and Emergency Preparedness in the government of the Rt. Hon.
Paul Martin (December 2003 - January 2006). She served as Minister of
Health (January 2002 - December 2003), Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Canada (June 1997 - January 2002) and Minister of
Natural Resources and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status
Indians (November 1993 - June 1997).

From 1976 to 1980, Anne McLellan was an Assistant Professor of Law at
the University of New Brunswick. In 1980, she was appointed Associate
Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. She served as Associate
Dean of the Faculty of Law between 1985 and 1987 and as Acting Dean
from July 1991 to June 1992.

Anne McLellan has also served on the board of directors of the
Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Alberta Legal Aid and was
Vice-President of the University of Alberta's Faculty Association. She
holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Law degree from Dalhousie University
and a Master of Laws degree from King's College, University of London.
Anne McLellan was admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1976.

Canada's top CEOs earn 200 times an average worker's salary: report

Average yearly compensation for top 100 CEOs is now $10.4 million

By Sophia Harris, CBC News Posted: Jan 02, 2018 5:00 AM ET

Canada’s top CEOs will earn an average worker’s annual salary before lunch on the first work day of the year, according to a new report. (CHAINFOTO24/Shutterstock) 

Shortly before 11 a.m. today, the average top-earning CEO in Canada will have already earned — in less than one work day — what the average worker makes in an entire year, says a new study.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report examined the 100 highest-paid CEOs at TSX-listed companies for 2016.

Turns out, those corporate executives had a stellar year. Their average annual compensation hit a record $10.4 million — that's more than 200 times an average worker's salary of $49,738, says the report.

It also found that top CEOs got a big pay hike. Their average compensation rose eight per cent compared to 2015, whereas an average worker's salary rose by just 0.5 per cent.

"CEOs continue, year after year, to increase that gap between them and the average worker," said David Macdonald, report author and senior economist with the CCPA, a think-tank that studies economic inequity issues.

"[They are] now making your average pay prior to your second cup of coffee," he said. "In a couple years — five years, maybe — CEOs will make your pay before breakfast."

Big bonuses

Macdonald combined base salary plus compensation, such as pensions and the granting of company shares, to tally up CEO income totals.

He found that, on average, base pay made up only 11 per cent of a CEO's compensation. The lion's share came from share grants (33 per cent), bonuses (26 per cent) and stock options (15 per cent).

• This tax perk for wealthy CEOs will cost Canada $840M this year

For 2016, Valeant Pharmaceuticals CEO Joseph Papa scored the top spot, earning more than $83 million in total compensation. Almost $56 million of that came from share grants.

Magna CEO Donald Walker came in second, earning $28.6 million, most of which ($26.4 million) was the result of share grants and bonus pay.

Joe Papa, CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, scored first place on CCPA's list of the 100 top-earning CEOs in Canada. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters)

Macdonald says one way to help shrink the inequality gap is for the federal government to tax top earners at a higher rate.

He also wants Ottawa to close tax loopholes such as the stock option deduction, a tax perk where profits from stock options are taxed at a lower rate compared to regular income. Many rich CEOs benefit from the perk.

"I don't think that people object to CEOs making more than average workers, but they make over 200 times more and the gap is increasing," said Macdonald.

"That's what gets Canadians up in arms."

'False comparison'

While some Canadians may take issue with what top CEOs are making, Carleton University business professor Ian Lee isn't one of them. He says their compensation is justifiable and shouldn't be compared to an average worker's salary.

Lee says top players in any industry — from sports to entertainment to big business — always make far more than the average person because they offer rare and sought-after talent.

"Comparing them to an ordinary person is like comparing apples to kumquats," he said. "It's a false comparison."

The late Hunter Harrison has been credited with turning around two major Canadian railroad companies. (Larry MacDougal/Canadian Press/AP)

Lee points to the late Hunter Harrison as an example of a top executive earning his worth.
Harrison scored the fifth highest CEO income in 2016, earning almost $19 million in total compensation as head of Canadian Pacific Railway.

He previously served as CEO of Canadian National Railway, and generated big profits at both companies through cost-cutting measures such as layoffs.

"Whatever people think of his actual tactics, there is no question that he turned around two [companies] in a way that was truly remarkable," said Lee.

"The salary they paid him, it was cheap," Lee says, considering the returns.
Harrison died on Dec. 16 at age 73.

Gender disparity

Along with income inequality, Macdonald has concerns about the gender gap he found in his study.
Out of the 100 top-earning CEOs, only three were women:

• #12 Linamar's Linda Hasenfratz: $14.6 million total compensation.
• #66 Transalta's Dawn L. Farrell: $7.4 million total compensation.
• #94 Atco and Canadian Utilities Limited's Nancy Southern: $5.4 million total compensation.

Just two women made the same CCPA list in 2015 — Hasenfratz and Farrell. Macdonald isn't encouraged by the addition of one more woman for 2016.

"I think it's extraordinarily difficult for women to gain access to this group," he said. "It's clear there's no movement on this."

• StatsCan on gender pay gap: Women earn 87¢ to men's $1

Macdonald expects to find some positive movement on average worker income when minimum wage rises to $15 later this year in Alberta and by 2019 in Ontario.

According to his report, the lowest wage for the richest CEOs in 2016 was $2,489.62 an hour.