He resigned from the Presidency of the CBC in 1995 with almost four years left in his mandate as a protest against government cuts to the Corporation.
[1] After his departure from the CBC, he established an international consulting practice in broadcasting, the performing arts, human resources, higher education, management, and governance.
Some of his clients were the Canadian Public Service Commission, the Telelatino Television Network, the Polish Broadcasting Council, and the National Arts Centre.
From 1958 to 1965 he lived in Los Angeles, where he studied engineering while working as a waiter (1958 to 1962), and as an electronics technician (Hughes Aircraft 1962-63).
In 1995 he was awarded an Honorary Membership in the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists, in recognition of his many years of support to technological education.