Harley Finkelstein

Maybe the second one is just I have very high standards for relationships.

I think that the friendships that I have, I hold very dearly in my life.

And because I hold them dearly, I hold them up to a very high caliber of quality.

And sometimes that disappoints people.

Sometimes that means those people disappoint me.

Those are probably the two major ones.

My dad is an immigrant to, we're sitting here in Montreal.

He immigrated here in the 50s.

His parents were Holocaust survivors.

After the Holocaust, they were in the concentration camps.

They survived.

They went to Hungary, to a town called Debrecen.

And during the Hungarian Revolution, things are really bad for everyone, but especially for Jews.

Canada had this amazing program where they let 40,000 Hungarian immigrants come to Canada in the revolution.

So actually, in Canada, if you meet Hungarians, generally they came in 56.

Because this sort of cohort of Hungarians came in the 50s.

They all came by boat.

And my dad, when they got here, they didn't have any money.

They didn't know anyone here.

They certainly didn't have any education.