James Moore
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Oh, yeah.
In 2010.
Yeah, Jerry, you know this because you're a Habs fan back in back in 2010.
coming out of the 2010 Olympics and the success of Team Canada in those Olympics, there were two Canadian teams that were coming in the second round of the playoffs, the Montreal Canadiens and the Vancouver Canucks.
And I'm joking, and you can't joke on Twitter, but I hadn't learned that yet.
So I joked on Twitter and I said, the Canucks are Canada's team in these Stanley Cup playoffs.
They're Canada's team.
And they've got those handsome blue and green uniforms in those Canadian Alliance colors.
Oh.
And I was just trying to poke a little fun, whatever.
So I said that, and I think in a β I can't remember where I said it, but I said it.
And then the prime minister's β I was the Canadian heritage minister, by the way, when I said that.
The Canucks were Canada's team in the playoffs, and the Cavs were still in the playoffs with us.
So I'm walking home, and I get a phone call from my director of communications, and they said, the prime minister's office wants to know exactly what did you say about the Montreal Canadiens.
And I said, what?
I said, I was just joking about the playoffs.
They said, no, this is a problem.
And I said, what's a problem?
And they said that you asserted what you asserted.
I said, there's two Canadian teams in the playoffs.