Prime Minister Stephen Harper threw more cold water on the idea that the federal government could help build an arena so that Quebec City could win an NHL franchise. "There's no federal program to fund professional sports facilities," he told French-TV network TVA hosts Paul Larocque and Jean Lapierre from the prime minister's cottage at Harrington Lake in an interview recorded Dec. 17. "Not now, not in previous decades. Pro sports are first and foremost the responsibility of the private sector, and I am encouraging the private sector to come up with a solution. "If Ottawa did something like that, we'd have to do it across the country, and the list is long. Hamilton, Regina, Edmonton, even my hometown of Calgary, everyone wants a new facility."
Mr. Prime Minister must be following my advice and reading http://www.fieldofschemes.com/
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