The Fine PrintFor those that still don't get it:
https://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/Second%20Report%20-%20April%2027%2C2007.PDF
"22. Acceptance of the Brookfield Binding Offer would not result in any available funds for distribution to the creditors subordinate to Brookfield (including unsecured creditors) or any value for shareholders."
The Brookfield offer is the best one so far and greater than the combined offers for bits and pieces of Caribou. It would take an offer double that before all creditors could be taken care of and then there might be a tiny scrap left over for shareholders.