Roughneck your response could have just been boiled down to “it’s the way it’s always been”, which is always a poor worldview. Sometimes poor conventional wisdom should be challenged.
I do think the city should host a plebiscite once there’s clarity as to what federal or provincial funding comes available to see if the city even wants to host it (doubt it once people learn how their taxes will rise).
What I was getting at on the part you didn’t understand was that if the feds need to “defend” giving capital to one major city vs the others that host NHL hockey then don’t. Give all cities a small but equal amount of money contributing towards facilitation of NHL hockey in the 7 major cities.
I bet you NHL hockey is more important to Canadians than the Winter Olympics. By a long shot too.
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