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Originally Posted by GGG
In Canada it would only take 5 provinces agreeing to amend the municipal governance act to ban Canadians subsidizing nhl arenas. That likely would be widely supported as if you remember when the feds gave the NHL teams a tax break it didn’t last long as it was overwhelmingly panned.
If Canada did this the NHL would have to seriously ask itself if it needs the Canadian market outside of Toronto, Montreal and BC. It might conclude it doesn’t.
Now to get the US involved would likely be more difficult but you would start by working through the North American Mayors Summit to get buy in on ending the stupidity.
You don’t need to evict existing owners as the NHLs likely response would be something around revenue sharing to subsidize new arenas.
It’s funny you talk about how the NHLPA would be tough to extract 900 million per year from. The only reason cities are easy to extract that from is that they don’t act like a union. It starts by getting all the existing locations on board and then working against poachers.
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I wish this was feasible. I really do. I never see the provinces in this much unity over and issue much of the populace would be in outrage over
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