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Note 13 - Capital Stock | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements |
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure [Text Block] |
13. | Capital stock
The authorized capital stock of the Company is as follows: An unlimited number of Preferred Shares, issuable in series; An unlimited number of Subordinate Voting Shares having one vote per share; and An unlimited number of Multiple Voting Shares having 20 votes per share, convertible at any time into Subordinate Voting Shares at a rate of one Subordinate Voting Share for each Multiple Voting Share outstanding. The following table provides a summary of total capital stock issued and outstanding:
|  | Subordinate Voting Shares |  |  | Multiple Voting Shares |  |  | Total Common Shares |
|  | Number |  |  | Amount |  |  | Number |  |  | Amount |  |  | Number |  |  | Amount |
Balance, December 31, 2016 |  |  | 37,322,767 |  |  |  | 399,401 |  |  |  | 1,325,694 |  |  |  | 373 |  |  |  | 38,648,461 |  |  |  | 399,774 |
Balance, December 31, 2017 |  |  | 37,608,467 |  |  |  | 406,611 |  |  |  | 1,325,694 |  |  |  | 373 |  |  |  | 38,934,161 |  |  |  | 406,984 |
During the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company declared dividends on its Common Shares of $0.10 per share ( 2016 - $0.10 ). Pursuant to an agreement approved in February 2004 and restated on June 1, 2015, the Company agreed that it will make payments to Jay S. Hennick, its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), that are contingent upon the arm’s length acquisition of control of the Company or upon a distribution of the Company’s assets to shareholders. The payment amounts will be determined with reference to the price per Subordinate Voting Share received by shareholders upon an arm’s length sale or upon a distribution of assets. The right to receive the payments may be transferred among members of the CEO’s family, their holding companies and trusts. The agreement provides for the CEO to receive each of the following two payments. The first payment is an amount equal to 5% of the product of: (i) the total number of Subordinate and Multiple Voting Shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis at the time of the sale and (ii) the per share consideration received by holders of Subordinate and Multiple Voting Shares minus a base price of C$3.324. The second payment is an amount equal to 5% of the product of (i) the total number of shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis at the time of the sale and (ii) the per share consideration received by holders of Subordinate Voting Shares minus a base price of C$6.472. Assuming an arm’s length acquisition of control of the Company took place on December 31, 2017, the amount required to be paid to the CEO, based on a market price of C$75.87 per Subordinate Voting Share, would be US$230,185.

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