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Blair founded his own Chartered Accountant business in 2000, and effective January 1, 2014, turned over the reins to his colleagues, continuing as Senior Advisor to the firm. In addition to assisting the firm on accounting, tax and related matters, Blair is offering personal financial planning, tax planning, estate planning and financial advice for those faced with the challenge of separation and divorce. See www.corkumfinancial.ca for more specifics and many informative articles and useful links. He provides these services on an hourly fee basis and receives no commissions or referral fees related to the sale of products, thereby ensuring independent and objective advice.
Blair has been a Chartered Accountant since 1978, and acquired a number of additional accreditations since then. He has a number of designations supporting his financial planning services: • Registered Financial Planner designation from the Institute of Advanced Financial Planning; • Certified Financial Planner with the Financial Planning Standards Council of Canada; • Chartered Life Underwriter and Certified Health Insurance Specialist designations with Advocis; (The Financial Advisors Association of Canada); The CLU is a life insurance and estate planning credential, and the CHS is the living benefits designation, covering such insurance as group health benefits, disability, critical illness, and long-term care. • - Financial Divorce Specialist from the Academy of Financial Divorce Specialists.
Prior working experience has always been with public accounting firms in Charlottetown and Halifax, including Corkum & Arsenault and its predecessors, as well as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coopers & Lybrand and Lyle Tilley Corkum. Blair has written many articles and provided numerous seminars on tax and financial planning topics. He has been profiled in the national publications, Investment Executive and Advisor’s Edge, quoted in a variety of publications, appeared as a guest on CBC radio and television, and holds membership in a number of professional organizations.
He has been active in non-profit community organizations throughout his career. He believes strongly in the benefits of education, and completed a twelve year term on the Board of the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation in 2013, seven of those years as Chair of their Audit and Risk Management Committee, which is a non-profit organization promoting access to education for children. He is currently Treasurer of the Community Legal Information Association of PEI, a charitable organization that provides Islanders with free understandable and useful legal information, and writes articles on their behalf for the Voice of Island Seniors, published monthly with the Guardian newspaper. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors and the policy committee of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce.
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