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Originally Posted by Colin May
$60,000,000 to host a game between teams we have no interest in. Most of the action is far away from the Maritimes and Moncton is getting the scraps.
The province is bust and it would be political suicide for McNeil to put a nickel into a white elephant.
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Speak for yourself, man.
As for the provincial budget, we're only "bust" because of ridiculous growth in healthcare spending. Over a half of our budget (almost two/thirds)-- $4.5 billion-- is spent every year on health care; roughly 13% of our GDP. The money that we would spend on a stadium (and really, almost every other expenditure, education included) is a drop in the bucket by comparison.
Health care is growing massive fattening elephant crushing anything. Not any piddly stadium.
Perspective.