Although it is not my intention to have this blog revolve around municipal issues, I find the politics surrounding the location of the new Pan Am Stadium in Hamilton to be fascinating. The latest pronouncement from Federal Sports Minister Gary Lunn is a complete disavowal of the Harper Conservative Government's earlier decree that it would not support the West Harbour site favoured by the City. Perhaps the strong reaction against the decree took the federal government by surprise, but the fact that the Conservatives are now saying that they made no communication with the Provincial Government stipulating the East Mountain site as the only one they would fund strains credulity.
Reminiscent of the worst abuses found in Orwell's 1984, this rewriting of recent 'history' is indicative of a very troubling Government characteristic: its absolute contempt, not only for local democracy, but also for the intellectual capacity of the average Canadian.
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