I am appalled by your proposal to spend our tax dollars on having an Expo 2000 in Toronto. If the experience of other world fairs is a reliable guide, this would be a scandalous waste of the taxpayers' money. Past Expos have been anything but successful. Eight Expos have been held in North America since 1960, and with only one exception the rosy predictions turned into a depressing reality of cost escalations and staggering financial losses. When measured by an objective criteria the two Expos held in Canada - Montreal in 1967 and Vancouver in 1986 - were both expensive disasters.
William Frampton
Mississauga
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