[arsenal]

As a former amateur athlete, I have an obvious biased towards providing more funding to athletes.
The amount of time, effort and sacrifice that these people put into pursuing their dreams of representing their country on the worlds biggest stage is astronomical.

As a country, we should care how well we do at the Olympics. It's part of having national pride. That's why we care so much about the world jr, and how well the men's and woman's hockey teams do during the winter Olympics. Why can't that extend to the summer games as well?

All I am hearing is this country does this, and that, and we have no hope against them because of doping, age fixing etc, so why even bother?

So if we can provide our athletes with the means, time, and support to be competitive on the world stage, and do it cleanly and legally, would that not make you feel better as a Canadian? That we can produce athletes that are able to compete against, and over come countries that are cheating?