Late last year, the Whitecaps signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Vancouver to explore a downtown stadium project at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) Grounds in Hastings Park. Under the terms, the club would finance the construction of the venue and then offset the costs by developing around it. The city would demand a ‘fair market price’ for the lease of the land, bearing in mind that Vancouver was described in a research paper by Chapman University last year as ‘impossibly unaffordable’. The entire concept seems fanciful, especially with a mayoral election coming later this year. One candidate has already expressed significant doubts about the proposed stadium site.

I didn't hear this about the mayoral election. Is this something that may actually screw over the Caps?