“While this panel of corporate heavyweights is the entrepreneurial equivalent of a rock band supergroup, they may not be the best choices to direct an economic plan that impacts so much more than the region’s business community.”

 

There are endless reasons why I should envy Don Mills. He has the freedom to retire, continue to work or travel the world—whatever and whenever he wants. He’s an active president, partner or director in four different companies. He’s been an influential corporate director, a successful author and podcaster, and a deserving member of both the Top 50 CEO and Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame. His life is the very definition of “got it made”. But I wouldn’t trade places with him for all of his accomplishments.

The same goes for Cathy Bennett, Mike Cassidy, Joyce Carter, J. Scott McCain, Chief Terry Richardson and Anne Whelan. All are highly successful, incredibly respected A-type personalities with well-documented histories of using their ingenuity and resources to make things happen—entrepreneurially, socially, culturally, politically and across industries. They are changemakers of epic proportion. And I don’t envy them one little bit.

They have, I fear, finally been tasked with something beyond even their prodigious capacity. I speak, of course, of ACOA’s new Atlantic Economic Panel.

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