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David Wilton

Former Member of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia

Aug 27, 2026

JasperPANELIST
3:53
What made you decide to start your own business with it?
3:56
I've always wanted to start my own business, right? So I always wanted to run my own business, and it was just a question of seeing what opportunity, uh, came along in life.
4:04
Um, before I was a manufacturer, I was a distributor, so used to buy other people's products in.
4:08
Then we tried a thing called contract manufacturing, where we, um, we got other people to make cookies for us, our own brand, but they, they made them for us.
4:15
And those things both had their challenges, so in the end, I got a little frustrated with that and said, "Well, if I, if I manufacture it myself, then I have control of the quality and the price, and, and I can do all the things.
4:26
I've got the freedom to go ahead and, and build a business that way." And so that's why we chose to become, uh, a manufacturer.
4:32
But I always wanted to be self-employed, and I've basically been self-employed since I was 23.

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AthanPANELIST
56:52
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