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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, October 26, 2021‘Dear Rays, Montreal won’t pay for your new stadium’ billboard up near Trop
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Posted: October 26, 2021 at 11:19 AM | 12 comment(s)
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1. DL from MN Posted: October 26, 2021 at 11:50 AM (#6049119)You're on the wrong side of the border, ol' pal.
The best way for bootstrapping capitalist billionaires to stay billionaires is to help themselves to Other People's Money.
On this side we have two parties who love to give away taxpayer money for sports stadiums. Dubious corporate giveaways might be the only things that get bipartisan consensus.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/why-canadians-should-question-the-new-orthodoxy-against-public-funding-for-arenas
https://theconversation.com/offside-the-secret-deals-involving-public-money-for-sports-stadiums-102160
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/a-look-at-canadian-stadiums-built-with-public-funds
https://www.brila.net/canadian-stadiums-built-with-public-funds/
And who is this billboard aimed at? The fine taxpayers of Tampa either (a) don't want their money wasted on a new stadium in Tampa either or (b) don't want to share their baseball team with Montreal anyway. "If you think we're gonna build a stadium for the Rays, you've got another think coming" is a pointless thing to say on a billboard in Tampa. Now if you want to put it up across the street from the Quebec Parliament with the message "if you waste our money on this, we'll vote you out" at least you'd have a point.
Per Wiki, the CTF claims about 30,000 donors (average donation about $170 in 2019) and 200,000 members -- nationally. It has only had a Quebec director since 2016. Oddly enough, I'm not knowledgable about Canadian non-profit regulations but buying billboard ads (regarding a local Canadian issue) in a foreign country seems like an odd practice for a non-profit.
Name one.
Quebec has its own insular brand of politics that I won't pretend to understand.
However, some universal truths
- Alberta and Quebec are natural enemies. A right-leaning Western think tank has no influence in Francophone Quebec.
- Quebec tends to lean more left-wing and socialist.
- It doesn't matter how the federal government or Western provinces or think tanks feel about public subsidies for stadiums. In the end, if the Quebec government comes hat in hand looking for federal funding for stadiums, they will get it. A Prime Minister doesn't stay Prime Minister for long without a happy Quebec.
I don't know that this is really true anymore. They're nationalistic, which sometimes comes off as socialist, and sometimes comes off... through other policies. That said, I think your conclusion holds.
It's actually called the National Assembly, despite the fact that Quebec ain't a nation (yet).
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