Greg Sorbara, second from right, with his son-in-law Sol Korngold, far left, and his sons Nicholas and Lucas, far right, at the 650-acre Edwin County Farms in Prince Edward County, Ont., that the family purchased in 2008 using a wholly owned investment company belonging to Greg’s six children.

Greg Sorbara had a romantic notion. Shortly after stepping down as Ontario’s finance minister in 2007, he wanted to start something new – not alone, but with his whole family.

He floated an idea: take the dividends issued by the Sorbara Group of Companies, the 80-year-old real estate legacy founded by his father, and put it into a company wholly owned by Greg’s six kids.

The children agreed to create an investment company, though the details had yet to be ironed out. “We had no idea what it was go

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