Mohammed Harb said he encouraged his son Rafat to become an entrepreneur at a young age. Victoria Walton Rafat Harb is only 22 years old, but the recent NSCC graduate is already a business owner, working to open a market under the weight of the pandemic. “I graduated in December 2020, I studied the adult learning program, for the high school diploma and I took courses for the business administration,” he says. When he arrived in Canada from Syria in 2016, Harb spoke little English. But as the oldest of eight children, he took on the responsibility of running his family's halal butcher shop.