Biography

The noted Lawyer who found the loop-hole that established the Canadian tax-shelter era of picture making (1975-1985). The first few pictures made with the pool of financing were a measurable success. However, as the executive level of production grew, tax-shelter projects became notorious. Most of the project would originate in the eastern part of Canada with high-fees being paid to legal affairs, by the time principal photography began (usually set-up in the west), tax-shelter pictures ran out of financing and had to eventually be shut down. By the early 1980s Union officials grew wise to these projects and demanded producers to provide a new piece of documentation called 'a completion bond'. Henceforth, Union members were never dithered out of a paycheck.