[kipperfan]

Originally Posted by _Q_

And I agree with that. Honestly I do, but that's kind of my point.

Shouldn't a country as awesome as Canada and a city as awesome as Calgary be able to fund stadiums that are better than Syria's or Lebanon's as well as fund other important things here because we're so much better?

That was the whole point of my argument.

Ok, well I guess I understand what you're saying a bit better, but would still say your logic is rather flawed.

We show our superiority over the places you mention by providing for our less fortunate citizens, our freedom of the press, our free and open democracy and our general way of life. We don't need to compete with third world countries (who are robbing their citizens in most cases in order to do the competing) in who can build the fanciest sports building - the reason Canada is such a great place is because we put the needs of our citizens first and our citizens simply don't need a new rink or stadium.

We do have a free market which dictates if there is enough private interest in a new rink or stadium they can and will be constructed – as mentioned before I think personal seat licenses would be a great way to go.