Canada's Top 100 CEO's Are Doing Just Fine

Canadian Press reports that Canada's top 100 CEO's didn't have such a bad year in 2008:

Canada's 100 highest paid CEOs pocketed an of average $7.3 million in 2008, the same year Canadians were hard hit by the emergence of the worldwide recession, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...

1. Thomas Glocer, Thomson Reuters Corp. $36.6 million.
2. -Ted Rogers, Rogers Communications Inc. $21.5 million.
3. -J. M. Lipton, Nova Chemicals Corp. $19.8 million.
4. -George Cope, BCE Inc. $19.6 million.
5. -Robert Brown, CAE Inc.$17.3 million.
6. -William Doyle, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan $17 million.
7. -Hunter Harrison, Canadian National Railway Co. $13.4 million.
8. -Dominic D'Alessandro, Manulife Financial Corp. $13.3 million.
9. -Stephen Wetmore, Bell Aliant Regional Com. Income Fund $11.6 million.
10. -Serafino Iacono (co-chairman), Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. $11.3 million.
11. -Miguel de la Campa (co-chairman), Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. $11.3 million.
12. -Jeffrey Orr, Power Financial Corp. $11.3 million.
13. -Jean Claude Gandur, Addax Petroleum Corp. $11.2 million.
14. -Edmund Clark, Toronto-Dominion Bank $11.1 million.
15. -Tye Burt, Kinross Gold Corp. $11.1 million.
16. -Frank Stronach (Chairman), Magna International Inc. $10.8 million.
17. -Louis Vachon, National Bank of Canada $10.5 million.
18. -Randall Eresman, EnCana Corp. $10.3 million.
19. -Gordon Nixon, Royal Bank of Canada $9.6 million.
20. -Ron Brenneman, Petro-Canada $9.2 million
21. -Richard Waugh, Bank of Nova Scotia $9.2 million.
22. -Michael Wilson, Agrium Inc. $9.2 million.
23. -Gregory Wilkins, Barrick Gold Corp. $8.9 million.
24. -John A Manzoni, Talisman Energy Inc. $8.8 million.
25. -Allan Leighton, Loblaw Cos. Ltd./Weston $8.8 million.
26. -Kevin McArthur, Goldcorp Inc. $8.7 million.
27. -Craig H. Muhlhauser, Celestica Inc $8.7 million.
28. -Harold Kvisle, TransCanada Corp. $8.6 million.
29. -Eugene C. McBurney, (Chairman) GMP Corp. $8.3 million.
30. -Jim Shaw, Shaw Communications Inc. $8.2 million.
31. -Richard George, Suncor Energy Inc. $8 million.
32. -Pierre Beaudoin, Bombardier Inc.$7.8 million.
33. -Richard J. Harrington, Thomson Reuters Corp. $7.8 million.
34. -D.A. Loney, Great-West Lifeco Inc. $7.3 million.
35. -Pierre Peladeau, Quebecor Inc. $7 million.
36. -James Kinnear, Pengrowth Energy Trust $6.9 million.
37. -Darren Entwistle, TELUS Corp. $6.9 million.
38. -Stephen Snyder, TransAlta Corp. $6.9 million.
39. -Donald Stewart, Sun Life Financial Inc. $6.6 million.
40. -Robert A. Milton, ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. $6.6 million.
41. -Donald Lindsay, Teck Cominco Ltd. $6.5 million.
42. -Peter Munk, Barrick Gold Corp. $6.5 million.
43. -Patrick Daniel, Enbridge Inc. $6.5 million.
44. -William Downe, Bank of Montreal $6.4 million.
45. -Nancy Southern, Atco Ltd./Canadian Utilities Ltd. $6.3 million.
46. -Gerry McCaughey, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce $6.3 million.
47. -Jacques Lamarre, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. $6.3 million.
48. -Charles Fischer, Nexen Inc. $6.2 million.
49. -Bruce Aitken, Methanex Corp. $5.9 million.
50. -Donald Walker, Magna International Inc.$5.9 million.
51. -Jurgen Schreiber, Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. $5.9 million.
52. -Edward M. Siegel Jr., Russel Metals Inc. $5.8 million.
53. -Siegfried Wolf, Magna International Inc. $5.7 million.
54. -David Goodman, Dundee Wealth $5.6 million.
55. -Mario Longhi, Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. $5.6 million.
56. -Ronald Pantin, Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. $5.5 million.
57. -Allen Chan, Sino-Forest Corp. $5.3 million.
58. -Geoffrey T. Martin, CCL Industries $5.3 million.
59. -Sean Boyd, Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. $5.3 million.
60. -Scott Saxberg, Crescent Point Energy Trust $5.3 million.
61. -Ian Greenberg, Astral Media Inc. $5.3 million.
62. -Paul Desmarais Jr., Power Corp. of Canada $5.2 million.
63. -James Balsillie, Research in Motion Ltd. $5.2 million.
64. -Michael Lazaridis, Research in Motion Ltd. $5.2 million.
65. -Andre Desmarais, Power Corp. of Canada $5 million.
66. -Francois Coutu, Jean Coutu Group $4.9 million.
67. -Jay Hennick, FirstService Corp. $4.8 million.
68. -John Lau, Husky Energy Inc. $4.8 million.
69. -Frederic Green, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. $4.7 million.
70. -John Macken, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. $4.7 million.
71. -Steve Laut, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. $4.6 million.
72. -Peter R. Jones, HudBay Minerals Inc. $4.6 million.
73. -Gerald Grandey, Cameco Corp. $4.6 million.
74. - Marc Tellier, Yellow Pages Income Fund $4.6 million.
75. -Mayo M. Schmidt, Viterra Inc. $4.5 million.
76. -Marvin F. Romanow, Nexen Inc. $4.5 million.
77. -M.H. McCain, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. $4.4 million.
78. -Keith A. Carrigan, BFI Canada Ltd. $4.4 million.
79. -Alain Bedard, TransForce Inc. $4.3 million.
80. -Wm. Wells, Biovail Corp. $4.3 million.
81. -Gerald Schwartz, Onex Corp. $4.3 million.
82. -Raymond McFeetors, Great-West Lifeco Inc. $4.2 million.
83. -Ellis Jacob, Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund $4.1 million.
84. -Robert S Pritchard, Torstar Corp. $4.1 million.
85. -Michael Waites, Finning International Inc. $4.1 million.
86. -Stephen H. Sorenson, Uex Corp $4 million.
87. -B.H. March, Imperial Oil Ltd. $4 million.
88. -Charles Jeannes, Goldcorp Inc. $4 million.
89. -Luc Desjardins, Transcontinental Inc. $4 million.
90. -Stanley Marshall, Fortis Inc. $3.9 million.
91. -Peter Marrone, Yamana Gold Inc. $3.9 million.
92. -Marcel Coutu, Canadian Oil Sands Trust $3.7 million.
93. -Kevin Loughrey, Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc.$ 3.7 million.
94. -Thomas Gauld, Canadian Tire Corp. $3.6 million.
95. -Brett Herman, TriStar Oil & Gas Ltd. $3.6 million.
96. -S. Defalco, MDS Inc. $3.5 million.
97. -W.P. Buckley, ShawCor Ltd. $3.5 million.
98. -D.L. Rogers, Sears Canada Inc. $3.5 million.
99. -Edward Sonshine, RioCan REIT $3.4 million.
100. -Rupert Duchesne, Groupe Aeroplan Inc. $3.2 million.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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