CDN Sponsorship

[observer]

I would just like to note that I charge significantly less for wearing a Canadian flag on my helmet, should anyone wish to sponsor me.

If Jacques does it for $12m, I would easily charge a tenth of that and I think it would be a little more meaningful, seeing as I actually live in Canada...

-r.
Richard Muise
Datsun 510 #04 (the pumpkin)

[ADAM]

shows you how absolutely friggen corrupt the weasels in the current government are....

but typical canadian style.... we will vote them in again....

ohh...please...can you put me over the barrel again.... mr martin/liberal gov't

[slucas]

JV seems to have received $4500.00 though the gov't paid out $12,000,000.00. That sounds about right !

[Nissan Racer]

Originally posted by slucas
JV seems to have received $4500.00 though the gov't paid out $12,000,000.00. That sounds about right !
After taxes...

[craig]

Just so everyone realizes, motorsports in Québec got a lot of money out of that fund, particularly the F1, but even things like regional events got money.

I'm not going into the right or wrong of it, but the PQ made a major effort to promote cultural activities in Quebec, and sponsored them heavily.

The federal government made it an implicit policy to match the province's funding to ensure that people would see the Canadian flag at these events as well as the fleur-de-lis.

Just imagine if you, as an organizer, got thousands of dollars for a regional-level event, and you begin to get the idea of how widespread the money was spread around.

It is no coincidence that once the PQ were defeated, such activities immediately disappeared, followed by the cancellation of many motorsports events that attract audiences. The most obvious example is the recent WRC Mexico rally, which went to them (essentially) because Quebec/Canada wasn't willing to lay out the cash anymore.

Anyone who thinks JV/BAR wasn't paid (I dunno about the amount) to have the Canadian flag on his suit lives in a dream world, and the reason he had that flag was so the PQ government couldn't advertise Quebec on his suit.

Politics is a dirty business, and in Quebec it was raised to a fine art by Duplessis, and his legacy is still around. If you want to win referendums (or wars), it takes any possible means, plus lots of cash that the other side can't find out about until it is too late.

When Parizeau said the referendum was lost to money and the non-Francophones voting no (a better translation of actual meaning then the literal translation of the "ethnic vote"), he wasn't lying.

Just MHO.

[slucas]

The Ontario gov't (pre-fiberals) spent some money promoting the province at last years ALMS race at Mosport. I think it was money well spent. Motorsport is a great vehical for advertising whether it's beer , cell phones or travel destinations. Of all the things our "leaders" can spend our money on they should be encouraged to spend it on racing.

[craig]

Yeah, but politicians with long memories will remember the outcry when the province sponsored Mo Carter's Camaro at (I think) Daytona and Sebring endurance races - you know, the gov't should be spending money on health/education instead of a decal on a race car, etc.

[slucas]

That's the short term thinking that needs to be changed no matter who you try to get sponsorship from. Accountants used to think that IT people were a finantial drain on a company because they didn't produce anything of substance.

[craig]

And they're right!!! :D

[Nissan Racer]

Originally posted by slucas
Accountants used to think that IT people were a finantial drain on a company because they didn't produce anything of substance.
Now IT people are thought to be a mental drain and are smoking some kind of substance :D :D :D :D

[John Powell]

The federal government made it an implicit policy to match the province's funding to ensure that people would see the Canadian flag at these events as well as the fleur-de-lis. Maybe we should start a separist party in Ontario to see if we can get some of that money flowing back here? After all, about 40% of it comes from Ontario anyway. We'll call our new part the Party for the Liberation of Ontario - the PLO. Oh wait. That's already taken.:(