You’re nodding, but I don’t think you get it. It’s really hot.

We played an hour-and-a-half game. There was almost a fight, because Tiger Williams was there, and it was all sorts of fun. We had dinner with them. Then the next night we had another dinner with the air force. We flew back and then got briefed by our liaison, and found out what was really going on over there.

I was so impressed by the people, especially—a very quick anecdote—a young woman who had been in the service for a while. They had laid their kits down for us, what they wear when they go out on manoeuvres, and she was telling me what it was all about. I looked at her and I said, “How heavy is this?” She said, “Well, it can be between 85 and 110 pounds.” I said, “You wear that all at once?” She said, “Oh, yes. That’s just what we do.”

“That’s what we do.” Think about that. When you pay attention and try to put yourself in the position of somebody else who is basically respecting our flag and protecting us, even if it’s off our soil—“That’s what we do.” The commitment is staggering. I felt so proud and so thrilled to spend time with them, and I would do it every year if I had the opportunity. Their commitment and smarts—I’ll tell you, we don’t know how lucky we are.

Two other very quick stories, because I’m already over—I apologize, Speaker. One is about my son. Jesse went to McMaster. He’s a world-class athlete—and that’s not me saying it; he proved that, a football player and pro for seven years. He called me up one day and said, “Dad, Bobsleigh Canada called me and asked if I’d like to maybe work out and try out. What do you think?” I said, “Oh, you’re perfect for it. You are the perfect makeup and body for it. Do it.”

So he ended up, just a few months later, in the Olympics in Vancouver, pushing for Pierre Lueders, one of the most decorated pilots in two- and four-man bobsleigh in the world. When I asked him, the first time he went down, I said, “What was it like?” He said, “Dad, it’s like putting a helmet on, getting stuffed in an aluminum garbage can and thrown down a hill going 145 clicks an hour. That’s what it was like.” After, he said, “Let’s go do it again,” so we know what his DNA is like.

And then my daughter, Kristin: smart, an athlete in high school, loved to compete, didn’t follow sport but followed business. She’s very successful. I had a chance to be her teammate on The Amazing Race Canada. Do you really want to find out how you get along with someone? Spend 24 hours a day, every day of the week for the first four and a half weeks, when you’re sequestered at night and you’re competing with your daughter. There was nothing—or very few things—in life that I can tell you I enjoyed more than competing with my daughter, other than wanting to make sure I didn’t let her down. We had so much fun. It was hard, but it was fun. I really got a sense and an understanding of what I saw in my son for all those years. The same drive and character to compete was in my daughter. It was just different, and I had to find out about it. But you find out when you pay attention ...

I’m going to end with bringing you back to when I said “WIN”—the W-I-N. It’s not the word; it’s an acronym. W-I-N: What I Noticed. And if you go through life and pay attention to what other people are doing, and really pay attention and listen to them and respect their opinions and respect who they are, not only are you complimenting them, but you’re doing them a service by allowing them to speak and get what’s on their mind out. And you also learn about somebody.

We could all do a little bit more of W-I-N-ing in our life because everyone deserves that respect.

Applause.