"I say that he was an academic in love with business. He loved business principles and how people did business and how they made it work. But he was at heart a real academic."— John Bragg (2014)
He spent most of his career as a lawyer and senior partner with Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, and then as Chairman of Imasco and Canada Trust where he built a reputation as one of Canada’s role models for business executives.