Canada's House of Commons took time from deliberations on tax rates and lumber disputes with the United States on Monday to glory in the Olympic gold-medal victory of the Canadian men's hockey team over Team USA.
"My question for the prime minister is, how about that Joe Sakic?" the leader of the parliamentary opposition, John Reynolds, said in his leadoff in the daily question period, referring to the most valuable player in Sunday's final.
"I'm very happy that the leader of the opposition mentioned that. It was a fabulous afternoon yesterday. We were all cheering, but it is not only yesterday. The last two weeks have been very, very good," Prime Minister Jean Chretien responded.
Chretien watched the 5-2 victory with his wife Aline at his 24 Sussex Drive residence in Ottawa. He congratulated captain Mario Lemieux and manager Wayne Gretzky by phone afterwards.
"Winning this game was very, very important, because for the first time in 50 years, hockey, our game, was coming back to Canada with a gold medal," Chretien declared to a standing ovation in a rare multi-party tribute.
"There were probably not many homes in Canada that were not celebrating," he added.
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