Ottawa mayor tells Raptors to 'forget the White House' and visit Trudeau instead after victory

[Dennis Donovan]

https://thehill.com/policy/international/448738-ottawa-mayor-tells-raptors-to-forget-the-white-house-and-visit-trudeau

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 country’s 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]

1. I'd imagine the food would be better too...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Poutine and Molson

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Anything that our Canadian neighbors serve has to be better than cold Big Macs..

[Blue Owl]

2. They might as well visit a White Castle instead

n/t

[Aristus]

3. Why would a Canadian sports team visit the White House?

[Lucky Luciano]

5. True, but the players are mostly Americans (I'm assuming - correct me if I'm wrong)

[Blue_true]

6. One player is from an African country, but the rest are US citizens.

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]

7. One player from Cameroon (Siakam),

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]

8. Thanks for the education.

I knew about Pascal and the GM, either ignored the others or didn't pay attention to start.

[JonLP24]

13. OG Anunoby was born in England

[luvtheGWN]

16. Thanks! I forgot about O.G.!

[Different Drummer]

9. My thought exactly. n/t

[zaj]

4. That's not even an insult.

It's just what should happen

[Gothmog]

10. Do not go to the White House for crappy fast food

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. it amazes me that they would even consider it!

[luvtheGWN]

17. I'm doubtful the Raptors will even be invited to the White House.

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]

11. quelle bonne idee

If only other leagues with a team in Canada would follow suit...

[Cha]

14. Brilliant-Retweeted! Why should they

be subjected to the Idiot who starts fights with Canada because his Russian master told him to?!