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Moose · 12-31-2010, 10:25 AM

Okay guys, I'm one of the people whose taxes paid that bill. For what it's worth, I think, Jean Drapeau put Montreal on the map. I really feel it is sad that Olympic Debt is the legacy everyone remembers.

Had the Parti Québécois not been elected in 1976, leading to so many companies and private individuals leaving the province, that debt would have been paid years earlier and Montreal would have continued to thrive. Very few companies are fool hardy enough to set up business or keep their Head Offices in a province that keeps threatening to leave, and that has hurt Montreal more than that anything. But it's easier to blame the debt than the Provincial Government we elected.

12-31-2010, 10:25 AM	#9
Moose Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Montreal, Quebec Posts: 49	Re: Macleans Magazine, September 1968 Okay guys, I'm one of the people whose taxes paid that bill. For what it's worth, I think, Jean Drapeau put Montreal on the map. I really feel it is sad that Olympic Debt is the legacy everyone remembers. Had the Parti Québécois not been elected in 1976, leading to so many companies and private individuals leaving the province, that debt would have been paid years earlier and Montreal would have continued to thrive. Very few companies are fool hardy enough to set up business or keep their Head Offices in a province that keeps threatening to leave, and that has hurt Montreal more than that anything. But it's easier to blame the debt than the Provincial Government we elected.