What's that all about? I saw something about it on the skyscrapercity forums but didn't really pay attention
Ville de Quebec wants a new arena to coax the NHL to return to them, and they thought that they could coax federal money to do it guessing that Harper would love such an opportunity to regain all the votes that he lost in Quebec, not realising that his ultimate analysis that it would cost him too many votes in the rest of the country to be worth it, so he won't.
Then, in his infinite wisdom, Ignatieff seemed to think that it was worth it and stated that he would fund it. I have no idea why because the Liberals stand zero chance of getting seats anywhere in Quebec outside of Montreal and Outaouais.