Raise the Hammer

Unfortunately, Mr. Young does not have his facts straight. While I have read comments that HostCo has welcomed the two-stream process currently underway, nowhere can I find anything that suggests HostCo and the Province "support" the East Mountain location. Also, let us not forget that the Province and BidCo were the first to approve the West Harbour site, which, in fact, was one of the main reasons the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games bid was successful. It's a bit rich to listen to this multi-millionaire poke holes in everything the City has done (and everything brought forward by expert consultants) and yet refuse to provide any hard financial facts or so-called "research". I'm sorry, but fan polls and the opinion of one Big-box developer don't mean much if you cannot back up your claims with hard facts and third-party, objective analysis. The real reason we are where we are right now is because Premier McGuinty and our local government Cabinet Minister have not had the guts to publicly declare support in favor of the West Harbour site. If the Province, which by the way, is "leading" the Pan Am Games, declared months ago that it was investing in a West Harbour stadium site - period, we would not be in this situation today. The Province has left us high and dry, telling the City to figure it out, giving Scott Mitchell and Bob Young (who probably won't be here in a year or two ) a veto on the site. Why would the City, Province and Federal politicians even consider building a stadium for "today" without considering what our City might look like 50 years from now? That is sheer irresponsibility. Does anyone really believe that in 30, 40, or 50 years there will actually be many cars/trucks left on the roadways? Give me a break! It'll be high quality public transportation all the way. And my final point is this: if anyone really believes the TigerCats are actually considering dropping $74 million dollars in 10 years, I'm sorry to say that they are very gullable. We'll be lucky if Bob Young invests even $1 million when all is said and done. The City knows this, Bob Young knows this, and the Province knows this. Too bad the main stream media doesn't dig a little deeper to find out what's really going on. I will NEVER go to a Cats game on the East Mountain. This legacy investment with tax dollars should be for the good of the people, not for the good of a multi-millionaire who, by the way, doesn't know the first thing about Hamilton or good urban land uses. I digress....