'Amazing Race Canada' Season 10 host Jon Montgomery teases ...

Canada's most-watched summer show, The Amazing Race Canada, is back for a wild Season 10, with 11 new teams racing across the country (premiering Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app). Hosted by Olympic Gold Medallist Jon Montgomery, this season's racers include professional athletes, actors and stars from other reality TV shows.

Montgomery teased to Yahoo Canada that this season will have all the elements that fans have come to love, with some "new flavour" in the gameplay elements. Everything will always have a uniquely Canadian spin.

"Canadians are going to be treated to another amazing season," Montgomery teased. "I think it might be the single most physically capable group."

"We've got a lot of really high performing athletes, but athletic prowess and physicality is but a small portion of what it takes to succeed. Relationship dynamics are hugely important, maybe the most important. Your flexible thinking and reasoning, your capacity to problem solve. ... So unless you're checking all the boxes, you really don't have as great a chance unless you're well rounded. If you're only strong in one category, it's probably not going to go your way."

Jon Montgomery on The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app (ALEX UROSEVIC)

Amazing Race Canada Season 10 begins in Niagara Falls, Ont., for the starting line, the same location the racers began in the first season of the series.

Particularly exciting for Montgomery, the show will also include his hometown of Russell, Manitoba for the first time.

"I probably know every square inch of the streets of this particular community," he said. "I think I also know 98 per cent of the people who call it home."

"My parents raised their three children there, myself included and my two older sisters, and we're all proud to be from Russell, and to have been able to call it home for as long as we did. Everybody's in the city now, Winnipeg, but Russell is always home."

The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app (ALEX UROSEVIC)

'I'll never congratulate somebody on taking a penalty'

While Montgomery really guides and supports the racers through their travels, there's one game move he's not a fan of, and that's when a team takes a penalty.

"I am, I think, cautious that they not take penalties without a great deal of consideration," Montgomery said. "I'll never congratulate somebody on taking a penalty."

"There are strategically some times where it makes great sense and I think there's other times where it's just flat out quitting. ... I put myself in the fan seat at home, not the host seat on the mat, being like, as a fan I'm going to be pissed off watching this. Don't take no more god damn penalties!"

While Montgomery very much owns his hosting duties, he's not taking participating as a racer off the table.

"I want to run it so bad, but I also like coming back every year to be part of the production, and if I was a racer, I'd only get to do it once," Montgomery said.

"My wife would be my partner and it would be entertaining for viewers, and maybe less so for us to navigate the differences that we would undoubtably run into, which would be the navigational differences. The divvying up of the challenges, I think would be pretty straightforward. She would do memorization and dancing, I would probably do eating gross shit and jumping."

The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app (ALEX UROSEVIC)

'Folks are tuning in for a reason'

One thing Amazing Race Canada has done particularly well throughout its 10 seasons, better than many other reality shows in the country, is build a show that represents a broad range of people who live in this country.

As Montgomery described, that's one of the most important factors of the show, giving credit to the skilled people who cast the series.

"We have a big ass country ... and casting producers field just a ton of submission requests," Montgomery highlighted. "What they're trying to do is build out that complete profile of this country, from relationships to regional representation, to demographics, to age and sex and orientation, and all of these factors have to go into building a group of teams that are going to be compelling."

"I think the hardest job is probably casting and I would suggest that it might be the job that is done the best on the show because of its level of popularity, 1.7 million viewers on average last season. Folks are tuning in for a reason. We have great landscape and other shows utilize that same backdrop we have, great communities, and other shows utilize those exact same communities, but it's the formula and the people that make the show."

Michael & Tyson on The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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Kevin Martin & Gurleen Maan on The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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Michael Linklater and Amari Linklater on The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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Connor Carroll and John Ferguson The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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Brad May and Sam May The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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Lauren Peters and Nicole Peters The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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Colin Rose and Matt Roberts The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 on CTV

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