Not everyone supported the Olympics coming to Vancouver, when it was put to a referendum. Many felt that a city with the poorest area code in Canada, as well as the richest, should invest time and money on sorting out its very real problems before inviting the international community to watch skiing and skeleton competitions.
The Olympics (just around the corner now, starting in February) have for better or worse caused a great deal of money to be spent, some of it disastrously: …