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Jim Pattison, chief executive officer and founder of Jim Pattison Group Inc., drives a pickup truck during a tour of his holdings near Russell, Manitoba, on Sept. 18, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Ben Nelms.Bloomberg photo by Ben Nelms.
Jim Pattison roars through rural Saskatchewan in his silver pickup truck, barreling down the prairie road that runs arrow-straight to the horizon. Tossed into the back seat is a sleeping bag and crimson pillow-the unlikely berth for Canada s self-made billionaire when he can t find a motel.
Observing the speed limit appears optional, using the turn signal an afterthought. Not that there s much in the way of obstacles-only shimmering fields of wheat stretching across a terrain so flat that if you lost your dog, as the saying goes, you could watch it run away for three days.