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QUEBEC — Québec solidaire has come out swinging against any taxpayer money being poured into professional baseball in Montreal.

“It’s a non starter as far as I and my party are concerned,” Rosemont MNA Vincent Marissal told reporters at the National Assembly Thursday.

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“Major League Baseball is a major business in the U.S., a multi-billion business. They are making money like crazy. I don’t see why, under any circumstances, the government of Quebec should put one dollar of public money in this project.”

Marissal was commenting on news a group of Montreal business people pursuing the idea of bringing a baseball team to Montreal has chosen a site in Pointe-St-Charles, near the Peel Basin, as the home of a future baseball stadium.

Two investor group members — Stephen Bronfman and Pierre Boivin — recently enrolled in Quebec’s registry of lobbyists in order to push the provincial government to help convince Ottawa to sell the site in question.