James Moore

That's not politics.

It's not sport or not religion.

It's sports.

It's something that doesn't matter, but it does matter.

It's a sense of pride.

It's a sense of identity and it draws people together.

You sing the national anthem and it's kind of the new village square.

And there's something very special about that and very unifying about that in good times and in bad times.

So it is a special thing.

And hockey is our thing.

And so I think it is really, really important that it gets understood as a cultural moment, not just a sporting moment.

because we've had a lot of those, and this is one of them.

Well, by the way, 1993, I believe the conservatives, progressive conservatives, conservatives were a story in government when we won that cup.

So yeah, we'll take that.

We'll take that for another few months.

That's what I said, I think, 93, yeah.

But the politics side of it, and I think I said this in a previous pod, but it's worth repeating, by the way.

So, again, I happened to be minister for the 2010 Olympics, and I remember talking to Brian Mulrooney-era cabinet ministers who were there, of course, during the 88 Olympics.

And I said, tell me about the 88 Olympics and what it meant politically and culturally at the time in 88 and what we might think about in terms of 2010.

And he said, well, you know, the infrastructure legacies are good.