Harley Finkelstein

We were living in South Florida.

I had just moved to Montreal here.

It was 2001 to go to McGill.

Mom calls and says, Dad's been arrested.

He was arrested for white-collar crimes and for business crimes.

And... I was...

I was mad at him.

I was disappointed at him.

I was too young to fully have the maturity to know what this all meant.

And I think a lot of people talk about, you know, how trauma in their lives dictate the rest of their lives.

I think the moment, actually, there's an apartment not too far from here on the corner of Dr. Penfield and Peel.

There's an apartment in that building.

I think it's apartment 405.

where there's probably not there anymore, but there was a hole in the wall where after my mother called me to tell me my dad was arrested, I took the phone and threw it against the wall and dented the wall.

We can sort of get into what happened after that, but if you sort of fast forward today, my dad's back in my life.

I have a great relationship with him.

I think like a lot of people that are of my vintage, I'm 41, you do begin around this stage of life to realize

have this epiphany or at least this realization that like the relationship of parent and child flips a little bit.

In some ways, I feel like I'm sort of the parent to my parents now.

I wasn't ready for that.