1. He is bonkers. Unless you are aiming for dividend only because you are in the negative tax brackets, you are right, yied is not as important as growth.
2. Taxes on interest from bonds is higher than taxes on capital gains or eligeable dividends.
3. Different investment mentality, also valid choices. There are many different opinions, and having fixed income from preferred shares can ensure a more stable growth. Your investment strategy is fine though.
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RRSP: diversification per account type is unnecessary on the long term, but if you want to have small extra gains, you could add that 10% bonds, so you can re-balance. (RRSP is the best place to have your bonds too)
Whoops, checked the image after writing. RRSP: doing great. I think it might be more optimal to switch your bonds that are in margin out to RRSP, unless it's held as a sort of emergency fund for easy access. (Interest income is non-optimal)
In other words, capital gains and eligeable dividends are less taxed than interest income from bonds.
-note, not yet a financial planner, but at your level, you already have a 95% solution.
Check the taxation brackets for your income level, and for your margin account, figure out if you want dividend, or capital gains.
Note that if the financial planner is not well versed in FIRE, he might be giving your normal person advice for your outlier situation.