CBC is announcing that the Shriners have voted to leave their Children’s Hospital in Montreal. That sucks. Stupid Shriners. Maybe I’m biased. Well, actually, no maybe about it, I am biased. But still. That sucks. London was a far better choice. Especially because apparently the Shriners aren’t even going to build a new hospital in Montreal now. Instead they’re going to expand the current, outdated 80-year old facility. The kids win how exactly? Brand new state-of-the-art facility vs. busted-ass-old-as-hell-expanded-but-still-cramped facilty where the public chastize you if you don’t speak french. Yep, no contest…
I hope that Quebec separates from Canada now and the Shriners are now stuck with a “Shriners Children Hospital of Quebec” and not “Shriners Children Hospital of Eastern Canada”. Then when they need to spend another $100 million dollars on top of whatever they spend to “modernize” and expand the Montreal one they’ll maybe think, “Gee…maybe we shoulda went with London afterall…”