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Share Capital, Option Plans And Share-Based Payments Share Capital, Option Plans And Share-Based Payments (Schedule of Long Term Incentive Plan Expense) (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2013	Sep. 30, 2012
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Unvested stock awards compensation cost, weighted average recognition period	3 years 0 months 18 days
Long Term Incentive Plan [Member]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense	$ 2,772,000	$ 1,414,000
Expected share-based compensation expense	39,942,000
Compensation cost recognized to date	32,700,000
Compensation cost not yet recognized	7,200,000
Unvested stock awards compensation cost, weighted average recognition period	1 year 9 months 4 days
Performance Stock Units (PSUs) [Member] | Fiscal 2012 LTIP
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense	0	579,000
Expected share-based compensation expense	17,314,000
Performance Stock Units (PSUs) [Member] | Fiscal 2013 LTIP
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense	215,000	300,000
Expected share-based compensation expense	6,489,000
Performance Stock Units (PSUs) [Member] | Fiscal 2014 LTIP
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense	1,370,000	535,000
Expected share-based compensation expense	8,080,000
Performance Stock Units (PSUs) [Member] | Fiscal 2015 LTIP
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense	583,000	0
Expected share-based compensation expense	2,683,000
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | Fiscal 2015 LTIP
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense	604,000	0
Expected share-based compensation expense	$ 5,376,000

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Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Total Compensation Recognized, Share-based Awards Other than Options

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based awards, other than options, awarded to employees as compensation.

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