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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Exactly the point I was making.
If the infrastructure is needed, then why pay off the IOC and pay for security.
This is such a backwards argument.
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Well, there is the funding argument. Federal and provincial funding is more easily secured for these facilities when there's an engine driving their development, such as the Olympics. The facilities that Vancouver got out of the 2010 Games are being used to the fullest extent and have benefited the communities in which they are located, as the CBC link I provided several pages back has stated.