Friends and family describe him as a “regular guy.” He drives a black, four-door Chevy Avalanche pickup, loves mountain biking on the Niagara Escarpment and cooking – particularly with his two food smokers, one electric and one a “bullet” charcoal model. Carolina-style pulled pork is a specialty, but his trim physique suggests there’s enough exercise to burn off the calories.

Kicking back, he might be drinking a beer, a Scotch or a glass of Niagara wine. His TV is on either CNN or sports, particularly football, a passion he’s followed in a Queen’s Park NFL pool. Hudak was a regular Buffalo Bills season ticket holder until 2007, a busy year with the election and Miller’s birth. He typically goes to bed in time to read for a half hour – he prefers political biographies – before drifting off.

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