Comments on: Toronto's 2015 Pan Am Games to Cost Taxpayers $11.6B? http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/03/10/torontos-2015-pan-am-games-to-cost-11-6b/ Reality, Reason, Self, Consent, Capitalism Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Quick Hits 3/12/2010 http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/03/10/torontos-2015-pan-am-games-to-cost-11-6b/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Quick Hits 3/12/2010 Tue, 18 May 2010 23:42:27 +0000 http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/?p=1109#comment-552 [...] McKeever, leader Ontario’s Freedom Party, reports on dishonest public budgeting and its tendency for cost overruns. In opposing public financing of [...] [...] McKeever, leader Ontario’s Freedom Party, reports on dishonest public budgeting and its tendency for cost overruns. In opposing public financing of [...]

]]> By: Paul McKeever http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/03/10/torontos-2015-pan-am-games-to-cost-11-6b/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Paul McKeever Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:07:26 +0000 http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/?p=1109#comment-494 Rob: you are correct that both the $6B Vancouver figure and the $11.6B Toronto figure include off-budget items that arguably would not have been spent but for the coming of the Vancouver/Toronto games (roads etc). Rob: you are correct that both the $6B Vancouver figure and the $11.6B Toronto figure include off-budget items that arguably would not have been spent but for the coming of the Vancouver/Toronto games (roads etc).

]]> By: Rob Granatstein http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/03/10/torontos-2015-pan-am-games-to-cost-11-6b/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Rob Granatstein Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:46:35 +0000 http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/?p=1109#comment-493 It's good to have a watchdog on these projects. Keep a close eye. Toronto needs these facilities, but not at any cost. And I think you're mixing up some of your numbers between Games infrastructure and add ons, like highways, subway lines, etc. And don't expect security like at an Olympics. It’s good to have a watchdog on these projects. Keep a close eye.

Toronto needs these facilities, but not at any cost.

And I think you’re mixing up some of your numbers between Games infrastructure and add ons, like highways, subway lines, etc.

And don’t expect security like at an Olympics.

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