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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
Waterloo just needs to land an sub Olympic Games (X? Pan American? )and take on a whole lot of debt
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The profile of the lesser games (in Canada that basically means Commonwealth and Pan Am) has fallen so much that I'm not sure they are really enough to get a new stadium built.
Other parts of the world still go big on these events, e.g. Asian Games, but Commonwealth 1978 was literally the last time a big stadium was built in Canada for one of those two. I guess some might say that Tim Hortons Field was a 2015 Pan Am Games project, but that really just seemed like a convenient cover... I imagine that stadium would have been built either way, and it played a minor role at best in the Pan Am Games.
If a place like Halifax landed the Commonwealth Games I'd expect them to put up a temporary 20,000 seat venue and call it a day. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I would not expect that... costs have increased while our national ambition, at least in that department, has declined.