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Taxpayers group calls on Olivia Chow to cancel Toronto's World Cup hosting duties (headtopics.com)

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A taxpayers’ advocacy group wants Toronto’s incoming mayor to give the city’s plan to host a handful of games during the 2026 World Cup the red card. (JOANNA LAVOIE/CP24)

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[–] Rodeo 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How do you figure out how much they're going to bring in tourism dollars?

[–] TEKUMS 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is unfortunately something that we can only look at past events and how they preformed. If I remember correctly, Toronto isn't building any new stadiums just for the World Cup games so they stand to make more money as there won't be that huge need for infrastructure projects that would eat into the revenue generated by people coming to the city.

[–] Rodeo 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So where is this "tens of millions of dollars more" statement coming from? Where did you get your numbers?

[–] TEKUMS 1 points 2 years ago

Here is an article showing potential breakdown on cost/profits that should be coming to the city. But again, we won't know the full numbers until afterwards.

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