I've said it elsewhere, but I feel that if there is going to be this kind of public money discussed for stadiums for the 2026 FIFA World Cup then Canada also needs to go for the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Would be the perfect dress rehearsal as the even if the scale isn't quite the same, the logistics are similar in moving people around as well as the timeline and would bring in a lot of people who will need hotel rooms, will go to bars and everything else (whatever they like to say to justify those kinds of $).
Plus Canada is better at rugby than soccer and getting better at rugby faster than soccer and it's just a better sport anyway so there's all that going for it too. I'd also want Calgary's 2026 Winter Olympic bid before this kind of money goes to it as well (so that we can get an even nicer stadium with some ridiculously expensive and lavish publically funded infrastructure projects that go with it. Go big or go home Canada, I want all three!)
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