The Hill Times
KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics. I doubt the hundreds of thousands of people who came to Montreal noticed, and while I did go downtown that summer, I refused to attend any events or even apply for a job. I just did not want to be associated with what became known as the “Billion-Dollar Boondoggle.
With interest, the total came to about $3-billion, a whopping sum that could have paid for any number of public projects. The Montreal Expos played their last season in 2004 before moving to Washington, D.C., mainly because they could not attract crowds to the Olympic Stadium. The Montreal Alouettes folded due to sparse crowds, then came back, only to leave for the friendly confines of downtown Molson Stadium. In 1991, a 55-tonne chunk of the roof fell after support beams snapped.
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