In the 1976 Montreal Olympics Nadia Comaneci won a basketful of gold medals and scored a perfect ’10’ on a couple of her routines. She went on to dominate the sport and eventually retired, got married and settling in the USA. Nadia Comaneci is now in 2019, a 58 year-old wife and mother of a teen-ager.
And the City of Montreal just finished paying for those Olympics. Forty-three years of pot holes in their roads, bad snow clearing, slow to no public services, fire and police services suffering; all because the city had to pay off it’s 1976 Olympic Games debts. Because Canada might have forgotten the 1976 Olympics, but the banks didn’t.
Forty-three years, almost half a century of low-grade, day after bleak day, of suffering.
Didn’t the 1976 Federal Government have any idea of costs? Did they not realize what every Canadian knows from their cradle to their grave? That debts always have to be paid back?
Who was the Prime Minister then?
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On a related note Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has (at last count) made over 2,600 spending pledges, totalling over $12 BILLION dollars.
Forty three years will be 2062 AD, if our Great-great-grandchildren are lucky.
Rick Ranson 