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          business elite canada
        
        
          H
        
        
          OCTOBER 2016
        
        
          omy was rough-handling entrepreneurs
        
        
          once again. Manulift, like everyone else,
        
        
          went through severe downsizing, cutting
        
        
          everything that could be cut. “It was a dif-
        
        
          ficult time to be an entrepreneur, but when
        
        
          you struggle through life you are stronger
        
        
          and better,” said the younger Drolet, now
        
        
          the company’s president.
        
        
          With time, effort and innovative thinking,
        
        
          
            “It was a difficult time to be an entrepreneur, but when you struggle through life
          
        
        
          
            you are stronger and better.” Martin Drolet, president