Pierre's Experience - Jammerh"What is upsetting is his selling of shares in the $3 range - what was that for?"
It's pretty much par for the course. Many executives are paid stock options as an incentive to attract goog people. Bombardier has to compete with other companies in the industry doing the same things.
I don't see it as a big problem. If you do it's a relatively simple thing to look for companies where the incentives aren't quite so generous. Of course, you then run into greater risk that those companies may not be competitive in attracting the best managers.
Executives who continually receive stock options as an incentive are generally advised to diversify out of the company they work for by selling those shares on an ongoing basis. The rationale being that they already have a lot tied up in their employer.
Yes, it creates a continual drain on the share price, but it is pretty much standard practice, and the amounts are really very small in comparison to the overall profits of the company.
So, it seems pretty clear to me. It's pretty much the norm in North American business culture. There are still some companies which don't do this, and if it is important to you, you probably should invest elsewhere.
At the same time, this isn't anything new. You should have known about this practice when you originally decided to purchase your Bombardier shares - assuming you did your homework thoroughly. So, why all the consternation now?
I mention the Embraer 190/195 since that is the aircraft which Bombardier itself has publically indicated CSeries is designed to to target.