With just weeks until his 80th birthday, Jean Chretien is not slowing down.

Last spring, the former prime minister did some kite boarding in North Carolina.

Now he says he’s anxious to strap on the skis and hit the slopes.

Chretien, who says he walks a lot, goes to work every day at a law firm in Ottawa.

Describing his health as ”first class”, he says he lives by advice his father once gave him – ”move or get rusty”.