Our esteemed Prime Minister working hard during proroguation.

[tuvor]

Canada's leader on Canada's game

Like most Canadians, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper (left) will be riveted when
Sidney Crosby and Team Canada take the ice.

Michael Farber spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as part of his Olympic hockey preview for Sports Illustrated. The following is an exclusive excerpt of their conversation that didn't run in the magazine.

SI.com: How much pressure will Canada's men's hockey team be facing if it plays in the gold medal game?

Harper: It would be incredible pressure. I can't offhand think of anything in any country where any team would be under such universal expectation of a gold and nothing less ... practically from four years before the event. It's a big deal, to all of us.

SI.com: A French philosopher wrote that to understand the heart and mind of America, you had to understand baseball. Is that true of hockey and Canada?

Harper: There are parallels...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/olympics/2010/writers/michael_farber/02/04/stephen.harper/index.html?eref=sircrc

[HeresyLives]

1. Oh. Barf.

[daleo]

2. Working hard, Steve?

Hardly working, daleo.