Becoming Canada Quotes

“During the Olympics, the phrase “Own the Podium” had been a source of national debate and division. Since the Olympics, it has become part of our daily language. “Own the Podium” is now part of how we think and part of who we are. Sometimes you have to believe to see. In those seventeen days in Vancouver, Canada’s athletes blew apart the last remnants of an old, crippling story. It wasn’t their story, just as it’s not the story of Canadian writers and musicians, scientists, and all kinds of other people in many, many fields. It’s not what they have experienced in their lives. It is not their Canada. These Olympic athletes won because winning was in them. They won because it is in us. In Vancouver, we discovered we are good. Now it is time for us to be important too.”
― Ken Dryden, Becoming Canada: Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future