 When I came here and had the experience of living in the country, I decided I wanted this place to be my home. I came over backpacking when I was 25 years old and decided to go around Australia. I loved Australia from the time I got here, actually. The atmosphere for me was fantastic. I really felt comfortable coming from Canada. I do believe that the Australians and the Canadians have a very good relationship, whether you're Australians over there, Canadians here. I met my partner up in Darwin feeding crocodiles, and yeah, we stayed around since then. I went back, got my permanent residency and came back a year later. I just love the country. I love the people. The lifestyle is great. Canadians and Australians aren't that different, but here everything revolves around outdoor. The other thing that really got me with Australians was their love of sport. I want a D up here after the pass, swing around. Settling down and raising a family. Then, of course, the first thing you do is you look for your leisure time and I was playing ice hockey with lots of guys from all over the world. People come from all over to play hockey here. No, I didn't bring one hockey. It was not the first year. I didn't think there was any hockey in Australia. A lot from a small town in Vancouver Island called Port Alberni. It wasn't a real big hockey town, but it was good, and I went back to my hometown, had an opportunity to come to Australia, and that's what I did. So I went through my citizenship process. I then actually became a police officer in New South Wales for quite a number of years, and that was a fabulous experience. It was just then my time to really start giving back something that I had, because it was ice hockey that brought me to Australia, and now I can actually return all the big favour that Australia did to me. I grew up in Canada on the west coast of British Columbia. I arrived in Australia in 1974 and I got my citizenship just a couple of years later, and I had no doubt that I wanted to be an Australian citizen. And then the only way I could play for Australia, too, to continue the hockey, was to become an Australian citizen. Whether they're Canadian, Australian, or playing over in Canada, I don't think it really matters where they're from. We're all Australian.