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The Law and Me
I graduated with a law degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta back
in 1990. After articling on the Sawridge Indian Reserve in Slave Lake, Alberta, I practiced for another year with my
dear friend and mentor Catherine Twinn. In 1992 I struck out on my own and maintained Dombro Law Offices for another 10
years. I had the pleasure of acting as principal to 3 articling students during my years of practice. During that time my
practice evolved from one of general law to more specialized areas, such as corporate commercial law, until finally focusing
as much as possible on international business transactions and international tax planning.
It became apparent to me that practising law was unsatisfying. In part this is because law has nothing to do
with justice. Rather, it is the technical application of government policy on the lives of the people, often pre-determining
the outcome regardless of the individual. I also learned to abhor our "rights" based legal culture, with no corresponding
"Charter of Responsibilities". I hated the fact that my legal liability insurance dictated the kind of advice I could
give clients. Often, in my opinion, this required me to give clients bad advice. Needless to say, there was nothing attractive
about coming home and telling my wife, when asked how my day in court went, that I had successfully put another drunk driver
back on the road. Or having to contend with clients who wanted to know how much it would cost to make sure the other spouse
didn't get to see the kids for Christmas.
I, Dexter Dombro, had an epiphany in 2002 and decided to do something useful with my life. Some years before
that I had started to work towards getting out of a constitutionally corrupt and over-regulated Canada, where the
true power is the tax man and the individual has no property rights, no financial privacy and abysmal health care, ranking
28th amongst OECD nations. This evolution towards doing something better with my life brought me to my two great passions,
afforable low cost housing in developing countries and afforestation and reforestation of tropical trees for our beleagured planet.
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The law isn't about freedom and justice. It's about greed and government control.
LATEST NEWS 
We have completed the planting of 127,500 tropical trees in Colombia for the 2009 rainy season.
