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 THE OLYMPIC PARK 30 years after What can we conclude ?
2 – Jean Drapeau who put all his energy to offer it to the youth of the Quebec and of the easter Montreal has been betrayed. 3 – Base-ball disappeared. 4 – The great mistake was to have considered Jean Drapeau as a spendthrift politician, whereas he will remain forever a visionary for his city and his country. Af for what concerns the Olympic fund, we can say that the amount of the tobacco tax and its incomes would have make possible to build 6 olympic stadiums. In fact, the stadium was paid as soon as 1984 but it must come back to Jean Drapeau still alive and Mayor of the City. But this did not appear possible to the Quebec. So, an extended debt was started in order to use a resource of several billions $, which must be incorporated into the Olympic fund (according to Guy Morin’s calculations from the financial statements and published in his book entitled « Une cathédrale inachevée”). Roger Taillibert scheduled with the International Olympic Committee the projects related to the Montreal equipments. They aimed to reduce the costs, but the social climate as well as the numerous demonstrations lead to quadruple their amount which reached more than 983 millions (including the roof), estimation made by the Minister Raymond Garnaud in Septembre 1976 in Québec. Now, the Olympic fund would have collected about 6 billions $, i.e. the amount of 5 equipments equivalent to Montreal’s one. Why in 1985 the « Tobacco Tax » was still collected as the stadium was already fully paid, according to the law issued, and which precised that the amounts received had to be paid back to the City. But, the problem was that Jean Drapeau was still the Mayor of the City, and that he must in no way take profit from his work. Still worse, was the extraordinary idea to push to the cyclists’ suicide in favour of the penguins. It’s by that time that the “Endless debt” came into being, and it must die only 30 years later, what is more without having completed the work as it has been originally designed. Jean Drapeau and Roger Taillibert were used as cover in the eyes of the whole world, whereas according to its rules, the R.I.O. had taken the engagement by a signed document as a definitive settlement to hinder in no way Roger Taillibert’s commercial activities and moral rights. Roger Taillibert’s case, legalized through the « Gonthier decision » delivers the hidden truth. Now, it remains to Roger Taillibert to ask the following questions unanswered till today :
If a fact, if an event apart from this narration, must enable the future owner to manage honorably this equipment, the management of such an equipment dependent upon the state has to be banished, especially without the help of true sports professionals. On the other hand, the truth exists, the figures too. Starting from an amount of 1 billion $ for the building, Mr Phaneuf, under Rejean Tremblay’s pen, notes that 30 years after the enrichment amounts to 6 billions from the Olympic tax decided at the beginning on a 48% basis of the yearly amount collected, which settled this file in 1985, but the true event was indeed the “endless debt”. As a conclusion, 30 years later, when the Quebec government took the decision to announce to the people that his stadium was paid, according to the journalist M. Duddin, from the « Journal de Montréal », the amount paid was in fact 2,342 billions $. But in order to keep inform the people, we must remind him that Jean Drapeau, being a visionary, he never wanted to ruin neither the City of Montreal, nor the Quebec Government. On the contrary it can be demonstrated and there’s no mistake, that the amount of the enrichment having for origin the Mayor Jean Drapeau’s decision, amounts to 6,263 billions $, including the Olympic Park. So, we must thank Jean Drapeau, after going off stage, to have achieved not only the Olympic Park, but also to have collected more than 6 billions $, freely paid by the smokers.
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