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Originally Posted by kipperfan
Yes, and in third world countries the government could care less about their people nor their access to vital infrastructure. You are aware the Syrian government has been murdering its own citizens for the past year or so, right? Pretty easy to pay for a new stadium when you're not even providing your citizens with a basic standard of living and havent been for a long time.
Is that what you're hoping for here in Canada? The government starts to do away with our public infrastructure (and therefore our standard of living) so we can start building bigger and better sports stadiums on the public dime? 
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I am aware of what's happening in Syria, which is why I brought it up.
I know the government probably funded that stadium 100%, because nobody in that country could afford to foot the bill. Unlike here. Again, I'm not for 100% public funding, that would be irresponsible.
Let's look at neighbouring Lebanon though. Camille Chamoun Stadium in better is by far a nicer place than McMahon.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium..._chamoun.shtml
Isn't it slightly embarrassing if you had a guest from Lebanon and you wanted to show them how amazing democracy, freedom and capitalism are and you take them to a football stadium that's worse than what he has in his country?
All I'm saying is, we shouldn't set the bar so low as to have infrastructure that's just adequate.