Bonuses are generally paid to those who achieve success.

If your business cannot survive without continual, massive government handouts, you are not very successful, are you?

Little wonder Canadians are rightly outraged by the arrogance and outright stupidity displayed by Bombardier senior management. And one must wonder if this arrogance and outright stupidity is behind their need for continual handouts in the first place?

Perhaps - just perhaps - what these senior executives need is not a bonus but a pink slip.