Equity compensation plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

9. Equity compensation plans

Long‑term incentive plan (“LTIP”)

The following table summarizes the changes in outstanding LTIP notional units during the nine months ended September 30, 2017:


		Grant Date
		Weighted-Average
	Units	Fair Value per Unit
Outstanding at December 31, 2016	2,101,118		2.08
Granted	1,817,463		2.38
Vested and redeemed	(1,009,780)		2.22
Forfeitures	(24,227)		2.32
Outstanding at September 30, 2017	2,884,574	$	2.22

Cash payments made for vested notional units for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 were $0.7 million and $0.4 million, respectively. Compensation expense for LTIP and Transition Equity Participation Agreement notional shares was $0.9 million and $2.6 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and $0.8 million and $0.9 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, respectively.

Transition Equity Participation Agreement

We also have 539,904 transition notional shares outstanding at September 30, 2017 under the Transition Equity Participation Agreement with James J. Moore, Jr. Fifty percent of the transition notional shares granted in January 2015 with respect to fiscal year 2015 will vest upon the four-year anniversary of the date of grant and the remaining portion will vest on or any time after the two-year anniversary of the grant if the weighted average Canadian dollar closing price of our common shares on the TSX for at least three consecutive calendar months has exceeded the market price per common share determined as of January 22, 2015 (Cdn$3.18) by at least 50% (Cdn$4.77).