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Originally Posted by The Ditch
A government owned NHL is still something I think you can't compare. The athlete most likely cannot go and compete for another country they are stuck with what they got. It's fine if you don't feel Canada should be investing money into our athletes but I feel I have brought up some decent points showing why I think they should and that they could do it without radically changing taxes.
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Well you've done a lot of bashing of the CBC, but you did raise a good point with "if they are successful, maybe more kids will get into sports".
I don't know if it's true or not though. If this kayaker was funded to the tune of 150 grand a year and managed to bring a bronze medal home with him, would more kids take up kayaking? Or would more kids take up kayaking if there was a 150 thousand dollar grant to a community to set up a kayaking program?
Someone else raised a point about "if they came home with 25 gold medals, would you feel better". I gotta say no, I wouldn't. Yay, they won a gold medal, but after that, well, where does it get ya? Where does it get the country? Nowhere, far as I can tell.