Anyone else hear Dhali’s unhinged rant this morning on Halbro about the government not ‘supporting’ sports teams?
Love Dhali, but this showed his true colours. Went on a rant about Air Canada leaving years ago bc of government? WTF are you going on about. The same Air Canada that is getting crucified by the Quebec government for not having a French speaking CEO? He wants government subsidies to keep teams here which is so utterly tone deaf with the cost of living issues.
I’m a huge sports and Whitecaps fan but come on! Government should not be paying to have teams here. They have millionaire/ billionaire owners that milk us dry at every corner. These owners have seen a 1,567% increase in value! If they want to cash out that’s totally fair, but to paint this all as a ‘government issue’ is insane to me.
I agree the Government should be doing whatever they can to keep the team here (within breaking even terms) but not use tax payer dollars to keep the team afloat. He used the Kansas City comparison of the city dropping their pants to keep the team there. Are we really comparing ourselves to the soulless, money driven, American system? They won’t subsidize healthcare or education but they subsidize sports teams?! Garber is so obviously a Trump wannabe; trying to be obnoxious and offensive to get what he wants. As a society, let’s not turn into these soulless ghouls. European soccer teams do not relocate, and guess what? They figure it out!
Dhali so painfully obviously spoke to Kerfoot and regurgitated his talking points. Brough even called him out for saying something totally different last week. Do better Dhali.
I’m so utterly fed up with America being anti-government/taxes but wanting them to subsidize sports teams.
End rant.