We're a day and ten minutes away from the deadline to submit our bid to host the 2015 World Expo. You've no doubt been hearing and reading about this all week, but do you actually give a damn?
I couldn't tell you who hosted any World Expo since '86 when it was in Vancouver. I have no clue who's hosting it this year. I'd Google it, but I just don't care. Clearly the World Expo has lost its sex appeal.
Having said all of that, I'd like us to bid and get this thing. Why? Because it's a big fat excuse to throw a bunch of money at a whack of stuff this city needs and deserves. The waterfront project will be completed much earlier, badly needed infrastructure will be financed and prioritized. Good things will happen in Toronto because we'll not want to look unprepared when the world visits in 2015.
We will soon know whether a level of government stepped up to cover a projected loss estimated at between $700 million to $2.2 billion.
