Edward S. Rogers Jr.

Today's featured playwright, Michael Healy, means someone else.

The telecom titan Ted Rogers and his son Edward, who struggle to wrest control over the family business.

If that sounds like an episode of the American television series Succession, you'd be right.

In fact, Healy and I discussed this very series in this episode, How Families May Produce Affirming Experiences or Cause Irreparable Harm.

It's that he's so interested or he's so motivated by being validated by his father, his father and his mother, who deny him their approval.

And so I wondered how much this really was about the relationship between parents and children.

And so Ted Rogers' relationship with his own parents, right, who deposit him in a boarding school and leave him there.

And then His relationship with his son and daughter, especially Edward, who wants that approval.

So I ended up starting to travel to England and around the world to recruit engineers to develop Cantel into Rogers.

Phil Lind, who was Ted Rogers' partner at the time, was my mentor there.

And then I, through the ATM project, I met primarily a lot of the bankers at BMO, at Bank of Montreal.

And I started staffing their whole information systems department, which at that time, it was so early on that they did not have a computer security department.

I got all that money for what I did in the past.

So, tell me why I'm wrong if I gave him the benefit of the doubt for knowing what he means, because, yes, you do get a contract based on your work that you've done, and he's got a resume that you could argue—I don't think you should have got that much money, to be honest with you, and I have a problem with the amount of years, but— Ted Rogers, I guess, came in and said, do whatever you have to do to keep the guy.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt on the comments because I knew what he meant in terms of getting the contract.

But you have to live up to that contract when you get it.