Quote Originally Posted by ArgoRavi View Post
There is no justification for spending that amount of taxpayer money on professional sports facilities.
This will only stop when billionaires and government get the message that the public won't accept it as was the case when in 2000 cabinet minister John Manley in the Chretien government proposed subsidizing the NHL.

Dubbed the Great Canadian Puck-Off by one group, the clamour of protest against a federal plan to subsidize Canadian National Hockey League teams continued yesterday unabated, perhaps even heating up. ...
He said Ottawa would pay up to $3-million annually to each of Canada's six NHL teams to help keep them competitive. ...
Winnipeg Liberal MP Reg Alcock's office has received more than 220 negative calls on the hockey bailout, more than it has on other issues, including gun control and the government's decision to retain the goods and services tax. ...
On radio and television phone-in shows, they expressed anger that the government would give handouts to professional hockey teams at a time when hospitals and other social services are strapped for money. One straw poll taken by a television network in the province showed that 96 per cent of callers were opposed to the plan. Newspaper headlines, editorials and many letters to the editor slammed the scheme.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1036298/