While in Winnipeg, Canada to promote their movie Men with Brooms (2002), he and fellow co-star Leslie Nielsen received honorary citizenship from Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray at the Granite Curling Club on March 2, 2002.
Admits to 'including hints of homoeroticism' in the final series of "Due South" (1994). He is quoted as saying that his new co-star Callum Keith Rennie was incredibly sexy and that the new series would be very homoerotic.