Near the end of the Winter Olympics, the premier of the small province of Newfoundland made a much-anticipated appearance at the Vancouver Games.

Danny Williams arrived straight from Florida, where he had gone in early February for heart surgery. It was his first public appearance since igniting a national debate about the quality of Canada’s health care by opting for surgery south of the border. He looked healthy and tanned.

“If I collapse up here, please drag me to Seattle, because the Canadian Medical Association won’t have anything to do with me,” he reportedly joked after taking the podium at a reception in honor of his province.

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