The $1.7B games are dead, killed by the mayor of HRM and the premier. Halifax will no longer get to be a "world class city" saddled with debt. The taxpayers of Nova Scotia will get a break, as will their children and grandchildren.
Nova Scotians have substandard health care, substandard roads, substandard educational funding (my niece had to share her worn out textbooks in high school with several other kids), the highest university tuition in Canada, etc. How can you justify spending hundreds of millions of taxpayers money on a sporting event when situations like this exist? You can't. Then the cost ballooned to almost $2 billion. You'd think they were hosting the Olympics!
For once we're getting responsible political leadership. Hats off to mayor Kelly.
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While I recognize the importance of physical activity in good health, it's long irritated me the way people overhype athletes and their 'games', whether they be bloated professional hockey and ball players or these so-called 'elite' amateur athletes who constantly are whining about not having any support.
What's really cracking me up the past few days is the way people who were pro-games are resorting to name calling and sour grapes about the fact that our elected leaders finally came to their senses. That's really mature, isn't it?
Maybe--just maybe--the government will put some of that earmarked funding towards helping out the farmers of this province--the people who feed us. I think they're a little more important than a few self important so-called 'elite' athletes and the monstrous egos of Logan, MacGillivray et al.
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