A few weeks ago I posted about the absurdness of MPs deciding that the selection of Shane Doan as Canada’s Captain at the World Hockey Championship was their business and that spending time in the House of Commons and Committee Hearings discussing it was an effective use of their time and taxpayers money.

Under Shane Doan’s captaincy, Team Canada won all 9 games they played enroute to the gold medal and outscored their competition 13 to 4 in their three playoff games.

During the tournament, Doan had 5 goals and 5 assists, and was the emotional leader of the team. In Canada’s game against Belarus, in the middle of the controversy, he scored a hat trick in a span of six minutes 25 seconds.

On the Hockey Night in Canada Coaches Corner segment after Team Canada’s win, Don Cherry thanked Jack, Jill [Gilles] and the Language Police for rallying the team behind their captain and inspiring them to bring home the gold medal.

A colleague suggested Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Denis Coderre should wear Shane Doan Team Canada jerseys in the House of Commons and make statements congratulating him and Team Canada on their gold medal win.  A good idea, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen.