Harley Finkelstein

Forced entrepreneurship and passion-based entrepreneurship are very, very different things.

And the idea of us, you doing your life's work and me doing my life's work, that is a concept that was foreign to our parents and grandparents.

Life's work.

That's a nice, you know, like, I've never said that to my grandpa.

That's a luxury, young man.

You know, wow, aren't you lucky?

That sounds like a hobby to me.

You know, as opposed to, they were rough and tumble.

They were like, do whatever we needed to do to survive.

If it was eggs or it was garments or whatever.

You know, we're sitting in Montreal right now and about 10 kilometers north of here is the Chauvinel Garment District.

Wow.

The Chabonel Garment District is an iconic area.

It's probably four streets by four streets.

And American Apparel, Buffalo Jeans, Algo Industries, so many companies, K-Power Succo, more modern companies.

Essence is based there now.

Moose Knuckles is based there.

It's this tiny little area that so much of the apparel industries that we know today were created out of.

Why did that exist?

It existed because it was the lowest barrier to entry.