As much as it would seemingly annoy everyone west of Kenora the idea of a Laurentian Olympics is more interesting than a single city bid. For Toronto at least it provides a good excuse to build some legacy infrastructure, something we are not doing for the World Cup, whilst also utilizing existing venues, particularly the Pan-Am venues. Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa could easily split the games outside of the issue of Downhill skiing, but if Beijing can host Equestrian in Hong Kong and Paris can punt surfing to Tahiti I don't see why we can't just have Downhill in BC. Alternatively, if we want to use the new long-track in Quebec City, we could also just use Le Massif there instead. There are creative workarounds which are more interesting to read about than people dismissively passing this off.
