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Beer bet: What's the best thing you've ever won?
- March 19, 2010 1:14 PM |
- By POV
The beer was part of a wager the Prime Minister had with U.S. President Obama on the outcome of the Olympic gold medal hockey game which Canada won. (Adrian Wyld/CP)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper collected on his sudsy Olympic hockey bet with U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday.
U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson delivered two cases of beer to the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa.
Owing to Canada's 3-2 overtime victory over the United States in the gold-medal match in men's hockey, the U.S. ambassador brought Harper 24 bottles of Molson Canadian and a case from Yuengling, a Pennsylvania brewery called the oldest in the United States.
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