Comment 46078

By realfreeenterpriser (registered) | Posted August 22, 2010 at 08:16:36

Any concerns around what the province did or didn't offer the Mayor are grounded in the misguided believe that a stadium location that would suck people AWAY from the city's core can somehow be made right by throwing provincial money at it. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Even if the East Mountain or Confederation Park locations were cheaper they would have been the wrong choice for a post-industrial city with a deteriorating downtown core like Hamilton.

When governments spend millions of dollars of public money, especially on a single piece of infrasture like a stadium, they have an obligation to ensure that as many taxpayers as possible benefit from that expenditure and that the broader interests of the community in general are addressed. In simple terms, the benefit has to be shared.

No one has come up with a location that does those things better than the West Harbour. Moreover, the locations proposed by the Tiger-Cats would do the polar opposite by drawing people away from downtown, eliminating the possibilty of LRT, reducing employment land or paving a public park and in the process would syphon the taxes of all of us into the hands of a billionaire.

Bob Young and the Tiger-Cats simply don't want to share.

Most Hamiltonians love their Tiger-Cats but, to paraphrase Jeffery93 "if a beautiful new stadium in the West Harbour isn't good enough for them and Bob Young, then they're not good enough for us"

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