'Expect The World' they're telling the
globe. Today
Toronto's
Olympic bid team
officially launched their
campaign to
host the
2008 Olympic Games here. The
focus of their campaign is the emphasis on
youth and
technology in
Canada, but little does the rest of the
world know that there have been more than 20
schools closed in the
Megacity of
Toronto since last year. Is it
irony or is it
Big Brother trying to
fool us?
The
planners have set the
site for the
games in an
industrial area where the
water stinks like
shit in high
July and
August when the
humidity soars to
ungodly heights.
Lake Ontario is
unfit to
swim in in many places due to
excessive sewage runoff after every
rainfall and to
expect the world's
finest athletes to
compete in a
dense industrial (thank you
Maxis!) site with
turds
floating by would definately be an
insult to
humankind.
Perhaps I'm being
pessimistic but all of the
bells, whistles and, gongs attached to the
bid seem to be coming from the
hands and
mouths of the
politicians and
promoters. Not much can be said about where they want the competition to go on from the
standpoint of a
local.
We're
technical and we're young they say. We're also going to demonstrate ourselves as an
industrial city, that's for sure. Maybe this bid is a sales pitch to our American neighbours from the friendly
Ontario Government. Maybe this is just another
example of our
tax dollars hard at work. Maybe you see me as a
freak conspiracy theorist but I know I'm not alone in my thoughts.
I really hope that the bid is
awarded to
Paris.