Excellent. Thank you very much.
However, if we do a broader breakdown...There is nothing for incomes over $500,000. Persons earning $1 million, $2 million or $3 million a year are not taken into consideration. If we look at your table, we see that 75% of the pot was divided up among those earning in excess of $500,000. These represent financial losses for the Government of Canada and therefore, for all taxpayers. I'd be curious to know what share of this 75% went to persons with total incomes of $1 million. The greater the breakdown, the higher the income level becomes and the greater the share of the pot for those in the very high income brackets.
It is very surprising to see that given the way in which this stock option proposal was drawn up, only 7,985 persons will receive an average of $393,000, whereas persons earning between $100,000 and $500,000—and there are many more people in that category—will receive far less than that.
Would there not have been some way to provide for the more progressive cashing out of stock options to ensure a much more equitable distribution of the funds?