Radio-Canada lays into Joey Saputo

If readers thought I was snarky last week about Joey Saputo coming hat in hand for handouts, have a read of Martin Leclerc on Radio-Canada. Leclerc tells how Saputo in fact got a very favourable 40-year emphyteutic lease from the city for his initial stadium. Then Leclerc shows how Saputo got government handouts so that the stadium eventually cost him no more than $14.5 million, rather than the $60-million gift he claims he made to the city.

Leclerc also reminds us that while every other landlord in the city coped with a tax hike in 2017, the evaluation of the Impact stadium and training ground (as well as the Bell Centre) mysteriously went down by as much as 25%.