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I grew up in the kind of family lots of Canadians would recognize.

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My mom was a nurse,

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my dad worked for a newspaper.

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They had to make a lot of sacrifices for me and my sisters.

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It wasn’t always easy.

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Like a lot of people, I had to take the bus everywhere, because

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our family didn’t have a car.

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And I learned you have to have a pretty good pitch

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if you’re trying to get a girl to meet you for a date at a bus stop.

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Like a lot of families, my mom, when she got

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sick, had to move into a care home before she passed away.

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My dad still lives in the townhouse we grew up in in Ottawa.

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I always had to get a job to pay my own way.

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I think that’s a lot of people’s experience.

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I had a paper route as a kid.

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I sold popcorn at football and hockey games. I’ve been a waiter.

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Now that I’m older I realize how much these jobs depended

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on local businesses, hiring young people like me.

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My wife Jill and I met through mutual friends

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and she did a year of her electives at the University of Ottawa.

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When she moved back to Saskatchewan I followed her out there and we

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started out our life together in Regina.

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I worked for an insurance broker at a family run business,

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and we started our own family in Saskatchewan.

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Now we have five incredible kids:

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Thomas, Grace, Madeline, Henry and Mary.

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My parents always told me that they knew

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they would have done their jobs

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if my sisters and I had better lives than they did.

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That’s what Jill and I want for our kids.

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That’s what most Canadians want to see.

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They want the next generation to be better off.

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That’s why I’m in this.

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That’s I stand for, and that’s what I fight for.