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Originally Posted by drew
Wow, I guess my other points were valid, and you decided to jump all over the definition of outdoor sports.
I should have clarified that I don't like indoor heated STADIUMS. We get, what 10 football games a year? Let's play them outdoors.
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Well it is an argument that is often used by many, so why not address it? And why should an arena be held in different regard than a stadium? Both are sporting complexes. And to be sure, arenas in the prairies are definitely heated in winter, just as other places require them to be cooled in winter to make them useful.
And if we build an outdoor stadium, pretty much all it will ever be used for is Football, and all you do is maintain the status quo. Regina has no need for a large arena. Saskatoon already has one of a fairly decent size, and Regina definitely won't get a whack at an NHL team in our lifetimes. A large indoor stadium fills a different need and allows us to make other uses out of it, whether they be trade shows, concerts, events like Monster Trucks, wrestling, UFC (if that is ever approved here). If you don't dream big once in a while, you stagnate. It's not like we're proposing something as outlandish as Olympic Stadium. Winnipeg can build an outdoor venue, because you already have a decent sized indoor one in the MTS Centre.
And your other point wasn't completely valid either. The feds have already contributed 100 million to the Human Rights Museum, and will be contributing something like 20 million per year to run that facility. And why should Winnipeg have gotten that? Don't national museums usually get located in the national capital? Winnipeg isn't exactly the major western city it once was.
Shouldn't this project have been just as hotly contested/debated then? Couldn't we have gone with a much more conservative design and had a plain complex to house the museum that only cost in the area of 150 million? It would still serve its purpose of educating people... why do we need such a grand design?
And given that the feds commitment is not only a third of the cost, but also will be a fairly large annual contribution, what is the net benefit to people from other parts of Canada? School children won't be coming from Regina to make a visit, let alone from other parts of the country, so where is our net benefit out of this? It will require over it's lifetime much more funding than a stadium here would. Yet it seems there was almost no debate over it whatsoever.