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Originally Posted by Fuzz
There are loads of projects that council has a case for(field house, full green line, for example), but they don't have a lot of ways of raising money. The province and the feds do. The Olympics are a good way to make the case for these projects immediately.
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And right now those projects aren't funded because there is a finite amount of money available, and though they are important, they are not top priorities for funding, either provincially or nationally.
How does an Olympics change that?
They only become more important because they will be useful for the Olympics, but it doesn't change their overall priority once the games are over.
So yeah, we get those projects sooner, but where does the money come from?
The Olympic bid does 2 things:
1) Artificially inflate the priority of certain projects meaning projects that aren't being propped up by an Olympic bid get delayed
2) Inflate the cost of those projects because they come with the cost of hosting the games meaning other projects have to be canceled
How are either of those productive?
The infrastructure argument is a selfish argument, that ultimately boils down to saying "I'm willing to pay a premium to get projects done in my city at the expense of the rest of the province/country", or a plainly circular one that boils down to "An Olympic bid will let us build infrastructure that is needed to host an Olympics".