Harley Finkelstein

So my grandfather ended up selling eggs at a local farmer's market not too far from here called the Jean Talon Farmer's Market.

and he created this egg stand.

He called it Le Capitaine.

It still stands there today.

My uncle runs it.

It's been around for, I don't know, 75 years, something like that.

And, um,

I think my dad was always very ambitious.

He had that immigrant ambition.

He wanted to have a better life than his parents had, and he wanted his children to have a better life than he had.

And growing up, he always sort of made us feel like we had enough.

There was never sort of a sense of scarcity in the house whatsoever.

It was only later in life that I realized that it was a bit of a fugazi.

It was fake, that we really didn't have very much.

But at the time, I didn't know that.

It felt like I had enough.

And where things came to a head, and you and I have been friends for a long time, so you know the story, was when I was 17, my dad was arrested.

I went to prison.

That's where it all sort of... The facade of a secure foundation came crumbling down for me.

I had just moved.