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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOttawa mayor tells Raptors to 'forget the White House' and visit Trudeau instead after victory
Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, Canada, urged the Toronto Raptors to visit the Canadian Parliament instead of the White House after the team won the NBA Finals this week.
Watson called on Prime Minister Trudeau to invite the team to the countrys Parliament in an online post on Friday.
Forget the White House for a victory lap. Come to Ottawa and Parliament Hill so Canada can congratulate you, Watson wrote.
Link to tweet
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Rhiannon12866
(204,779 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,325 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,779 posts)Blue Owl
(50,271 posts)n/t
Aristus
(66,294 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,248 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)But even with that, the team is Canadian and those players listen to the Canadian national anthem at every home game, so all the celebration should be Canadian.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)one from Congo (Ibaka), one from Spain (Gasol), one from Canada (Boucher), the Raptors President from Nigeria (Ujiri), the owners all Canadian, and the rest from the U.S.
An international team, one could say! Oh and they listen to O Canada at every game they play, not just at home.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I knew about Pascal and the GM, either ignored the others or didn't pay attention to start.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Different Drummer
(7,604 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)It's just what should happen
Gothmog
(144,937 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,258 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Remember last year IQ45 disinvited the Warriors AFTER they turned down the invitation. He can't risk that happening again with another NBA team and his excuse this time will be that the Raptors are a "foreign" team.
NotASurfer
(2,146 posts)If only other leagues with a team in Canada would follow suit...
Cha
(296,853 posts)be subjected to the Idiot who starts fights with Canada because his Russian master told him to?!