MAKING YOUR MILES COUNT Robert D. Scheper
Loyalty has its rewards In business, as in life, picking your associates is very important. Ultimately, it’s a matter of trust. How do others behave around their associates? How associates treat others in public or private eventually will reflect on you. Someone who blames others will, sooner or later, blame you. Thinking you’re immune to their disloyalty is arrogant; more than a little disingenuous… it’s delusional. Failure to secure loyal and honest associates will eventually get a businessperson in serious trouble. Historically, when a gentleman ‘introduces or vouches’ for a person, there was an implied transfer of liability. If the newly introduced person defrauded the person they were introduced to, the person who introduced or vouched for them was held jointly liable for the indiscretion. Those long-ago codes of honour have disappeared. Now it seems that everyone must find their own circle. There seems to be a lot of ‘throwing people under the bus’ lately. As the Federal Government Parliamentary Review Committee investigates the origins of enacting the Emergency Act, the conflicting blame game rages back and forth like a ping pong game. With testimony of both the former and acting Ottawa police chiefs (Sloly and Bell) denying that they requested the Act and added to that same testimony by the 10 • OVER THE ROAD
head of the RCMP, the words of Minister Mendocino who stated that the officers asked for the Emergency Act, echo empty in the halls of public opinion. I guess the real question is, who threw who under the bus? Someone must be hiding the truth; both can’t be right at the same time. To have the Emergency Act enforced based on a “misunderstanding” is, at the very least… terrifying. Let’s just hope nobody has their finger on a nuclear button with this level of communication. I have several very wealthy friends. Wealthy enough to only manage what they have rather than work to build new money. As you may know, wealthy people also circle with other wealthy people. It’s not that they are snobs, it’s just a fact of similar interests. Since February/March of this year (when our government froze bank accounts of those who donated to a cause) there has been a decided uptick of wealthy people who are actively seeking diversification of their capital outside of Canada. This is not an anomaly, it’s simple common sense. Some say the capital leaving Canada could range in the billions, while the refraining of outside capital that is normally invested INTO our country could total many times that. Money/Capital is not safe if a government does not appear stable and law-abiding. The exit of capital can and will take many months or even years. As I have personally witnessed, significant effort and action is JULY 2022
