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Originally Posted by Muta
A big part of me wants the Olympics because it will kick-start movement on an arena and get us some other badly-needed sports facilities built in Calgary. Also, this is the one chance we have to get money from the federal government before they go back to ignoring us again and pretending we don't exist. We need to pillage their coffers within the small window of opportunity that we have!
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I think this is the important part... I always here we always give more money to the rest of Canada and never get any back... but then when we have the opportunity to receive funding we fight against it.
Many people state that we can better spend the money on other projects, but it is not like the provincial and federal governments are like, oh you are not hosting Olympics here is 4 billion to spend anyway.
Chris