Maxime Dion: The TV show On efface et on recommence

Here, read the transcript of the interview with Maxime Dion, an eligible firefighter in the Saint-Eustache Fire Safety Department.

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Well… what values, basically? I… Just giving. And it’s gratifying, really. It finds us. You know, we’re not looking to get anything out of it. We give, and just seeing people’s reactions in the end… and our work. We’re proud of our work at the end of a day. And there’s also the reaction of… of the family, they’re so happy. And… in my case, it just found me. And it really gave me a lot of pride… to be able to initiate a project like that. It’s a type of work I enjoy, construction. And I got to initiate it. I could see myself in that project… devoting more than a few hours to it, you know. I wanted to… I wanted to… get involved. And… it made me want to keep on giving because it’s fun to see a result. It’s fun to see people… be so… moved, be touched. And you see the difference it’s made when, you know, you talk with them, you look at them. We like making a difference. It’s just the same as when you give a few hours to the food drive, only you don’t have the chance to see the… the people receive the donations, the perishable food items. But you know that it makes a difference, and… it just makes us feel happy inside, you know. It gives us that little bit of happiness inside.