I lived in Edmonton most of my life and good for Calgary and could care less about the government money being applied at least something nice and productive is getting built, the government spends more money on re-designing roads because of piss poor planning from decades before. Or the money being spent on useless go-nowhere studies.
Very well said
Our first arena was from the early eighties in part built for the winter Olympics back then and was long due to be replaced despite not having the longest use. John Hamm was interviewed from a luxury box during one of our home games a couple of years ago and his less than flattering opinion of the Saddledome pretty much captured the perception league-wide.
It's true governments squander money left right and centre. So to have two state-of-the-art arena centre-pieces in the provinces two largest and rival (in many ways) cities only males sense for the province (expected to grow almost beyond calculation over the next 50 yrs).
Calgary also needs a new CFL stadium and if Winnipeg and lowly Regina can boast the prototypes for CFL stadiums then why shouldn't Calgary. Maybe this province would be able to host more global events with world class facilities.
Anyway, my only hope is they do the arena and do it right: 920 mill or 1.2.Bill whatever the total is get it right. And just get it done.
