My life has been blessed by five powerful Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), two that happened in my childhood, and three that occurred in my adult life, my most recent in 2003.  My first adult Near-Death Experience in a plane crash in 1979 changed the entire course of my life and my career as a medical doctor.

My original purpose in writing Dysfunction was to provide a narrative history from the perspective of someone on the executive team that conceived and executed the Keystone XL project. I felt it was important that Canadians understood why the project was lost and what that loss would cost them.