The results show that Claude Brochu be damned, BOM respondents are in no big hurry to cheer the Expos in a glorious outdoor stadium in the heart of city: only 22 % voted to spend the money on a ballpark.Everyone else had other intriguing ideas of how to spend the money...
Build a shuffleboard stadium in the Bahamas * Adopt all unwanted babies * Give it to AIDS foundations * Assassinate all prominent political figures * Battle the multilateral agreement on investments until it is seen for the sick bullshit that it is * Establish a "Freenet" and put the rest into libraries * Build a big concrete wall down St-Laurent to separate east and west * Build a massive bordello * A marijuana grow house * A repertory theatre for Montreal's English-language theatre scene * A vast network of bike and roller-blade routes * A castle on Mont-Royal for me and my friends * A home for the elderly Chinese community * Homeless shelters * Low income housing * Build more Peel Pubs * Establish an organization to eliminate platform shoes * Put terraces on all the rooftops then give God the rest to change our climate to tropical * Buy a BMW and catch a good man with it * Buy a controlling interest in Nike and fix it * Buy a new baseball team * Buy a spaceship and build condos on the moon * Buy Celine Dion's legal rights and never play her songs again * Buy a great computer and surf the Net for Cyberporn * Buy hockey free agents and turn the Habs into the dynasty of the next millennium * Buy a really fast car with a bombastic sound system * Buy the Mirror and employ all my friends who need jobs. * Get kids off the street * Clean the city, shelter the homeless, provide jobs for the unemployed, help the sick, add resources to the AIDS/HIV community, and most of all get the automated phone taken out of city hall. It is a disgrace to a vibrant city to have an automated voice come over the phone at city hall * Clean up garbage * Fix the potholes, give us all rent-controlled apartments, freeze tuition, pay off the language cops once and for all * Clean up the rivers to swim in * Create jobs for 15-28 year olds * Build a battered women's shelter * Build anything that does not pander to the "PATRIARCHY" that runs our society * Donate to le Bon Dieu dans la rue (Pops) * Flood the streets of the city and turn this into a new Venice * Force the Mirror to close its doors for good * Fund education * Fund environmental programs * Fund the arts * Get liposuction and electrolysis and donate the rest * Give Montreal's musician a chance to live off their music, 'coz the Montreal wave is coming up * Go on extended sex vacation to Morocco and pay gorgeous youths to service me and my man and then farm their organs * Improve handicap accessibility *Help renew hospitals * Solve downtown parking * Hire a mayor with a clue * Hire English police * Hire Noel Godin to nail Conrad Black * Spend $1 million on termites to eat Lucien Bouchard's wooden leg and the other $249 million to hide nicely from the rest of the separatists * Import jazz and R&B * Live on interest and jerk off soulfully on top of Place Ville-Marie * Get the hell out of Quebec * Make the world a better place to buy some clothes, go to spa * Offer a controlling interest in downtown development to Quebecor and have them buy it out * Open own hydro company and give everyone free electricity until money ran out * Pay off Visa and McGill then live off fat of land * Produce series of Mtl-based films * Reduce taxes * Relieve McGill's debt * Replant trees on Mont-Royal * Revitalize Somerled and Côte St-Luc in NDG * Revive our crappy economy by encouraging business to return from Toronto * Save the whales * Seduce Sasha * Set up a business and employ all my unemployed, depressed friends * Shop * Start company and hire all my artsy-fartsy friends * Subsidize record deals for good new Mtl bands * Throw a big party * Travel around the world * Treat beautiful women to the wonderful life they deserve * Try to unite the province *
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