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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.
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So in other words, you are so strongly opposed to any public money going to an arena, you are willing to sacrifice not only the Flames but every small-market Canadian team.
Bully for you, but a lot of people don't agree with you and the teams are not yours to destroy.
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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.
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The North American Mayors Summit? That's not a legislative body, has no authority, no coercive power, no capacity to do anything at all except as individual cities choose to agree. Good luck with that.
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You don’t need to evict existing owners as the NHLs likely response would be something around extracting money from the NHLPA.
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If you want to end the use of publicly financed arenas, you need to evict every team that is now using a publicly-financed arena. Including the Flames from the Saddledome.
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It’s funny you talk about how the NHLPA would be tough to extract 900 million per year from.
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What's funny about that? Did you miss the last two lockouts? Do you honestly think it's
easy to extract $900 million a year from anyone?