Mayor Gregor Robertson fulfilled the poetic portion of his friendly wager with Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi this morning.

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Prior to the Vancouver Canucks facing off against the Calgary Flames in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the two municipal leaders agreed that the mayor of the losing city would wear the winning team’s jersey, donate just over two kilograms of food to the local food bank for every goal scored and recite a short poem about the victor’s city. Mayor Nenshi had originally indicated the poem would be a haiku, but clearly that was not the case with the extended and playfully insulting poetry he wrote for Robertson to read aloud in council chambers Wednesday morning. Robertson may have adlibbed the final verse of the poem with the line “Vote transit.”