The concept of "Own the Podium" may be have become somewhat jaded in recent days, but there is no denying that the Power of the Podium is real and ringing out.

On Monday night, Canadian figure skaters Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue received a Gold Medal for ice dancing at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. The podium they stood on was made of Western Larch, harvested by the Ktunaxa Nation from their community forest and milled at the Ktunaxa mill in Grasmere. This is no mere trivia; this is a demonstration of the Canadian interconnectivity on full display at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The contribution by the Ktunaxa to this not insignificant piece of Canadiana, an historic moment indeed, is one of the countless moments from the past two weeks which will go unremarked by the world at large, but which we would be remiss in not recognizing.

This example of our interconnectivity is perhaps best summed up by Canadian poet Shane Koyczan, who closed off the Olympic opening ceremonies with "We are More:"

"... We are cultures strung together

then woven into a tapestry

and the design

is what makes us more

than the sum total of our history"

What at treat it would be for us all in this area, for that podium to be returned to Ktunaxa territory.