> Pearson’s rise was due mostly to $179.4-million of share compensation in 2015 – a year when Laval, Que.-based Valeant was at times Canada’s most valuable company with a stock above $300 per share for a two-month stretch in the summer.
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> Since then, Valeant has lost more than 90 per cent of its market value ...

Gosh,  despite all the claims about 'stock options and such encouraging senior execs to align their interests with the long term interests of the company', do you think this might not work all that well?

Unless the government wants to give me a deal on pension income, they should tax stock options at the same rate as all other income (even if the investment community doesn't like it).