So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.