A story this week at theTyee.ca does a little arithmetic and concludes that the economic benefits of the Olympics will be pretty slim.More to the point, about 6.7 billion dollars less than promised by the Campbell Liberals.The government was using the number $10.7 billion as the estimated economic activity hosting the Olympics would produce. Now it prefers to say it will be $4 billion.But even that amount is based on a best case scenario mapped seven years ago by a consulting company, and real t...
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