On your marks ...

There’s always a chance a new season of The Amazing Race Canada could end in a dead heat.

Good thing one of the teams competing this summer has undertakers.

Canada’s most-watched homegrown summer series returns for a fifth season on July 4 on CTV. The network has just announced the 10 teams from all across Canada who will be competing for the grand prize, which includes $250,000, two compact SUVs, and a trip around the world for two.

Among them are Deb and Aaron Baker, a mother-and-son team from the B.C. border town of Grand Forks. The two funeral directors refer to each other as “last responders.”

They should be easy to spot during the competition: both plan to wear their dark blue funeral attire throughout the entire race.

“Yes, we are running in our suits,” says Deb, 54, who insists she has a fun job. “People come in grieving and for some reason I get them laughing.”

Deb is the second oldest contestant this summer, as teams get younger and stronger.

“We try to make the race harder every year,” says executive producer John Brunton, who feels the new cast truly represents all of Canada.

Among the other teams are Zed Dhalla, 27, and Shabbir Dhalla, 57, a father and son team from Vancouver. Zed’s the big Race fan, but Shabbir wanted to compete “because I’ve only got a few more years left on these legs.” Dad is also a stage 3 cancer survivor. “It was very much a blessing in disguise,” says Shabbir. “I look at life completely differently now.”