Helping Those in Need

The other thing that I find that I look back on is the ability, the opportunities that I’ve have had to assist folks who have been in desperate need. And I don’t think I would have had the same opportunities and it’s very heart-warming to be able to be a Canadian and just go and help folks because you can. When I talk to the students here at Encounters with Canada I often ask them, you know, how many people have pushed a car out of a snow bank or done something else like that and there’s a forest of hands that goes up. And I ask them if they ever expected to get paid for it and they go heck no! And that is uniquely Canadian in my experience.
As a country we do for folks simply because we can. We’re not really looking for anything in return and I find that very heart warming and very rewarding.