- His favorite film is Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968).
- He is related on his mother's side to the Canadian painter and sculptor Jean-Paul Riopelle.
- He is 1/4 Spanish. His paternal grandfather was born in Pamplona in 1932; in 1936 he and his entire family had to flee Spain to escape persecution in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Leaving the family home in the dead of night and rushing to San Sebastián, where they crossed the Bay of Biscay on a raft, they lived as refugees in the French countryside for several years before emigrating to Canada in 1953.
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