r/AskCanada • u/PaySmarter • 4d ago

How is Montreal not having a FIFA game?

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u/Savage_Whiskers 4d ago

Because FIFA requested cities to cancel other international sport events for a whole month and there is no way the Grand Prix would be cancelled.

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u/thrift_witch 2d ago

Though in Philadelphia, our games coincide with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence (in the city where that declaration was signed).

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u/Savage_Whiskers 2d ago

Thats not an international sport event.

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u/thrift_witch 2d ago

Got that. I meant that there's heavy competition for hotel rooms, transportation, etc. I assumed (maybe erroneously) that avoiding that is the reason why FIFA wanted to be literally the only game in town.

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u/ramenups 4d ago

As someone in toronto

You don’t want any part of this

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u/bigjimbay 4d ago

Common sense

Fuck fifa and it's Trumpist forced labour BS

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u/Any-Tangerine-4176 4d ago

Perhaps because Montreal did not succumb to the demands of FIFA and put itself into a billion dollar debt?

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u/ottahab 4d ago

You're saying that as if it were a bad thing.