Barry and Honey Sherman were names that most Canadians had heard before,

especially those who ran in the upper echelon circles of society.

In fact, Canadian Business Magazine had Barry Sherman ranked as the 15th wealthiest person in Canada,

with a fortune valued around $4.77 billion.

Most of that wealth was amassed through Barry's role as CEO of the generic drug pharmaceutical

company Apotex, Inc. Barry Sherman fancied himself a sort of Robin Hood in terms of his role in the pharmaceutical

industry. According to Ann Kingston and Michael Friskalante in their April 5th, 2018 article in

McLeans entitled The Other Side of Barry Sherman, quote, he touted himself as a patent-busting underdog,

the courtroom crusader, bravely suing the Merks and Fisers and Bayers of the world, so he could

provide needy patients with cheaper generics. If we're thieves, we're Robin Hoods, he once claimed, end quote.

Additionally, per an article in the National Post by Claire Brownwell, Adrian Humphreys, and

Jake Edmiston, quote, Sherman liked to characterize his fights with the patented drugmakers

as being in the interest of average people struggling to afford brand-name drugs,

going as far as accusing the multinational drug companies of raping Canada's health care system,

end quote. The problem was that Barry Sherman was not seen by everyone as the hero that a Robin Hood character would make him out to be,

not by a long shot. In fact, he had also made many enemies along the way in his growth of the

company and his numerous court battles. Former Ontario Parliament member and late physician Morton

Schulman went so far as to say of Barry Sherman in the same McLean's article that he was, quote,

the only person I have ever met with no redeeming features whatsoever." End quote.

It was the dichotomy of the view of the Sherman's, Barry in particular, that was on

everyone's mind when on December 15, 2017, the bodies of both Barry and his wife were discovered

by a real estate agent walking clients through

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