"Charlie is a CPA, CA who retired from public practice in 2016. He was a partner in a CPA firm in Eastern Ontario for approximately 30 years, and prior to that, a partner in a CPA firm in Toronto. He has lived in Prince Edward County since 2006 when he returned to the town in which he was born.

In both his professional and personal life, he has served as an advisor to numerous not-for-profit, and charitable organizations. Most recently, he was on the Board of a national charitable organization assisting the Deafblind population, and a member of a local not-for-profit corporation that provides supports for the development of community businesses."