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   -- Canadian Press | Aug 28, 2015   
      
   Mulcair says taxpayers shouldn't pay for professional sports franchises   
      
   MONTREAL - Taxpayers shouldn't be expected to help pay for new major league   
   sports franchises when there are hundreds of thousands of Canadian children   
   living in poverty, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said Friday.   
      
   Bringing back major league teams is a hot topic across Quebec, with both   
   Quebec City and Montreal looking to regain lost franchises, but Mulcair said   
   sports fans shouldn't expect any help from the federal government.   
      
   "I think that nothing would be better than for the private sector to get   
   together and put everything in place to have a Major League Baseball team (in   
   Montreal)," he said.     
      
   "But in a society that knows still to this day far too much poverty and when I   
   have hundreds of thousands of children going to school hungry, it's hard to   
   understand that the taxpayer would be asked to fork over money for franchises   
   that are worth    
   billions."   
      
   Media giant Quebecor officially submitted a bid in July to bring back an NHL   
   team to Quebec City after hundreds of millions of municipal and provincial   
   dollars financed a new arena.   
      
   Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is one of the city's biggest cheerleaders for the   
   return of the Expos, but the discussion is pure speculation, as most agree a   
   comeback of Major League Baseball in Quebec is at least several years away.   
      
   Much of Mulcair's speech Friday focused on his party's plan to alleviate   
   poverty.   
      
   He reiterated the NDP's pledge to increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement   
   benefits to Old Age Security and to lower the age of eligibility for   
   government pensions back to 65 from 67.   
      
   On the subject of child poverty, Mulcair added that an NDP government would   
   cancel the tax credit for stock options that he said mostly "benefits the   
   wealthy" and use it to help fight child hunger.   
      
   "In the NDP we just don't accept that the people who built our country -- our   
   seniors -- should be living in deep poverty," he said. "And we don't accept   
   that hundreds of thousands of Canadian children go to school in the morning   
   hungry -- we will change    
   both those realities."   
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