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Originally Posted by suburbanite
The Ontario government and/or City of Toronto is supposed to contribute to a stadium in Halifax?
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I even had typed out a few lines addressing this and decided not to. Yes I know most likely it would be provincial or city money, and therefore not really in any way linked. I meant more from an overall, if the universe was fair, if the GD BLue Jays get handed a stadium, it only seems fair that a group that actually
needs some assistance (or at least
less assistance than the megamonopoly owned big league team) gets help on a stadium too.
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Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy
johnny24 might be referring to federal money. If there is no federal money going towards a CFL Stadium in Halifax, (and there was no federal money going to stadiums in Regina, Winnipeg (well, they did contribute a small amount to the training facility/fieldhouse for amateur football and the university but not the actual stadium infrastructure itself) and Ottawa, then there shouldn't be any federal money being allocated to a MLB Stadium in Toronto. While we are at it, Calgary and Edmonton didn't receive any federal funds for their new/soon-to-be constructed arenas.
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And yes, federal dollars specifically should absolutely not be spent on a baseball stadium before it is spent on a Halifax stadium. As laid out above, the feds have actually been very consistent on not spending any money on stadiums, the only way I could see them turning around on that is to boost the economy, and in that sense Halifax makes way more sense than Toronto.
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