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Many Canadians have mixed feelings about hosting future global sporting events, according to the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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They believe events like the Olympics are “corrupt” and a waste of money, according to a report by Blacklock.
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“There is no clear consensus among respondents who believe large-scale international sporting events will be somewhat or very valuable to Canadians in the future,” said a Future Of Sport Public Opinion Research report.
“In fact, the largest proportion of respondents, 38%, don’t know how these events will deliver value to Canadians.
People wonder how valuable large-scale international sporting events like the Olympics will be to Canadians in the future.
Twenty-six percent said they did not consider them useful, 34% said “somewhat useful”, 32% said “very useful”.
“Among those who think large-scale international events don’t provide much value to Canadians, two in five think these events are too expensive and that taxpayers’ money should be spent on other priorities,” said writes the researchers.
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“Other rationales provided included that these events are elitist (13%), that it is not beneficial to Canadians (13%), or that they don’t care or are not interested (11%)” .
Nine percent said, “These events are corrupt.
Six percent responded, “These events are too political.
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The results were based on questionnaires with 9,208 Canadians.
“The purpose of the quantitative public opinion research was to gather information about Canadians’ perceptions of the future of sport in Canada,” the report states.
“Excellence funding was focused on the highest priority sports to best meet their medal-winning needs,” said a Canadian Olympic Committee’s Road to Excellence 2006 business plan.
“Because ‘excellence’ funding was limited, a number of lower priority sports did not receive funding.”
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