I am a lawyer by training, member of both the British Columbia and Quebec law societies and have five university degrees, including two law degrees and two degrees from Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. I studied history, law, languages and philosophy at the universities of British Columbia, Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne (Paris), Laval (Québec) and Ottawa. I have worked in oilfields, factories and warehouses, morgues and operating rooms, lumberyards, shipyards, construction sites and in the courtroom as a trial lawyer. For the better part of twenty-five years, I lived and worked in France and Quebec, and now drift between the Indian ocean, Paris and Catalan country.