And it's appealing because the U.S. system leads to all sorts of nonsensical arguments about
whether golf buddies or prostitutes have duties of confidentiality, and who needs to know who got paid for breaching those duties.
Forbes makes his home off a
golf course five minutes from his Nanaimo office; he has a ski chalet up the side of Mount Washington, which this winter had one of the highest snow bases in North America; and one January weekend this year, when parts of Canada were enduring sub-zero temperatures, he had to decide
whether to go
golfing with his
buddies or skiing on the mountain.