Comment 53634

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted December 23, 2010 at 00:30:21

And Unindustrial, you think that the money earmarked for Hamilton won't be used by another city in this for facilities? Think again. Either way, the money will be used, now it just won't be used in our city in all probability. That's a shame IMHO.

This type of logic just doesn't work. If other municipalities won't be responsible, there's little we can do about that. Wasting more money certainly wont. But by setting a good example, we're making a statement that we can be trusted with Federal and Provincial funds when we need them.

We do not need a stadium to remediate brownfields. We do not need one to build new GO stations (in fact, those tracks might be handy...). We do not need a stadium to fix up Confederation Harbour. And we certainly don't have to wait for one to implement plans which were already on the books for the West Harbour. The trend of overspending on boondoggle "legacy" projects in this town must end. Every time it happens, we're waved a big pile of intangible, unquantifiable benefits which are supposed to repay all the costs, including the possibility of more boondoggle projects (roads, hotels etc).

What might happen to this town's image of being dirty and poor if we actually started acting on issues of poverty and the environment?

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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