He was a founding partner of a Halifax
law firm, Franklin Fountain Mitton and Thompson (later Burke Thompson) and a
judge of the
Regional Assessment Appeal Court from 1980 to 1989. He has been the
chief executive officer of "Great Eastern Corporation Ltd" since 1985. The company is an
asset management firm By 2009, after a brief period during which he took the company public, it had estimated assets of $102 million. As of 2014, its annual report showed profits of $17.7 million on total assets of $582 million. ==Philanthropy==