Posted AT 2:17 AM EST on 13/10/05
Little structure that grew
Calgary and Ottawa — Marcel Tremblay and John Brussa had no idea what they'd unleashed when they hatched a plan in the fall of 1984 to sell portfolios of aging oil wells to retail investors.
Neither did Ottawa, for 19 years.
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