How much is a gold medal worth? Is it worth us letting people go hungry?  Is it worth sacrificing proper infrastructure or how about a child’s education?  The reason I ask these questions is because although I am a proud Canadian, I do realize that the billions of dollars spent on the Olympics could be used to inject our social systems with the money needed to compete with the rest of the world in what matters most.   How would you feel if we could have the lowest poverty rate in the world or how about the best health care system?  Did you know that right now over 750,000 Canadians are using food banks and over 250,000 of them are children?  This number has spiked to its highest rate ever in the past year.  Although I feel somewhat hypocritical because it would be hard to pull me away from the television during the Canadian men’s hockey games.  But I’ll tell you one thing, friends, we need to make a change!  Instead of rewarding our elitist athletes to go the faster and play the harder, we should be rewarding our citizen with top of the line education, health care systems, infrastructure and transit.  The answer is not to raise taxes to boost these systems.  Our taxes are already too high, leaving little extra in the average pocket.  We need to figure out ways to cut spending on any nonessential activities. In my opinion the Olympics would be one of the first.  Canada lets stand together and create a better tomorrow for our children!