Taypayers pay For New arena

The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to have a new practise arena, and the taxpayers of Toronto seem to be footing a large portion of the bill. I would have thought they would just own their own practise arena and increase ticket prices again. After all for people in Toronto, they have two choices to see a OVER priced Leaf came or pay their rent... Seems like a tough decision eh? Unfortunately most people choose the Leafs, which leads to higher and higher prices, as some desparate fans will pay anything to see their team up close. Why not listen to it on the radio, thats free, and you don't have to worry about subscibing to Leafs TV to see all the games, after all the radio announcers are much better than the TV announcers, as the TV guys sometimes take the play by play for granted because you can see whats going on for yourself; accept for Joe Bowen of course, who was a radio announcer long before he got into TV broadcasting :)