We could use a new poll. This one has to be at least 6 months old. Personally I voted for the "Plebiscite" option at the time because it's too important and contentious for the populace not to have a say. But I was definitely strongly pro-Olympics at the time.
Since then however I have done a complete 180, mostly as a result of seeing the actual details of the bid. I've always wanted Calgary to host an Olympics, I was born in 1990 and I'm jealous my parents got to experience 88. But all those feelings and wants can't override the fact that this bid is terrible. We get no new useful infrastructure besides a field house. The costs to the City are already exhorbitant and all but certain to rise. We aren't getting enough funds from the Feds to offset the Olympic externality costs, it would be cheaper to build the facilites we actually want/need than to tag on unnecessary Olympic expenses. The IOC is corrupt. We're giving BC spinoff benefits after they've done everything in their power to choke us off from the world economy, they can go #### themselves. This bid makes no sense and it overrides all my existing biases towards wanting an Olympics here.
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