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Minister of Environment and Conservative MP Jim Prentice grew up in the Northern Ontario mining town of South Porcupine. Jim's father, Eric "Doc" Prentice, was, at the age of 17, the youngest player ever to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs. After a relatively short career in the majors, Jim's dad, went to work in the gold mines and later moved his family to Alberta to work in the coal mines and eventually became an accountant. Jim, too, worked in the coal mines of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta to pay for his education at the University of Alberta. Jim earned his law degree at Dalhousie and moved back out west where he married his wife Karen and together they had three daughters, Christina, Cassie and Kate. Jim was first elected in 2004 in the riding of Calgary Centre-North. In 2006, Jim was appointed as Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs. Following the 2008 election, Jim was made Minister of the Environment. Jim Prentice talks to Catherine Clark about his life Beyond Politics.