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Originally Posted by Hackslack
I believe that our governments also have the responsibility to stand up for our culture, and a major part of our culture are the sports hockey and football. A reasonable way to continue to hold up these cultural institutions is through providing funding for stadiums, for some of the best athletes in the world, and with respect to hockey, the best league and players in the world.
I'm not saying governments should outright pay for these stadiums, but I think it's resonable to expect them to contribute to these cultural institutions.
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Hockey is important to our identity and of significance but, football? And, sports a major part of our culture?!? I'm sure there's no deficiency in public dollars being funneled into hockey programs over the arts either. An NHL club is not a cultural institution. It's private enterprise. I'm going to say you're being just a little biased towards the things you like.
Our biggest hindrance to producing top talent is the lack of affordability of hockey. Skill takes a backstage to wealth. We're obsessed with size as well although that more understandable. Building half billion dollar shines is just more of how we've lost focus from what really matters if we want to remain the dominate hockey nation.