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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
That is not reasonable when you are talking about community rinks in small towns. They don't have the corporate base to pitch into the cost of the facility.
There is also the problem of second tier cities with major junior hockey league teams. The feds consider these "professional" teams, and won't cough up any monies for new arenas housing these teams. Yes, major junior hockey is a "business" in the routine use of the term, but it is a small business by most measures and in no way should be confused with the conflated excesses of major pro sports. There are a number of mid sized cities stuck with aging arenas which can't get funding to help with replacement facilities. This is just plain wrong.
In 10-20 years time there will be a huge backlog of aging rinks in cities of 10-200,000 people that will all require urgent replacement. You're just punting the problem down the road........
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Ontario has done a nice job of renovating or replacing its aging major junior rinks. The partnership should be between the province, city, private sector and major jr team. It can be done.
You can't have the Feds giving millions of dollars to all 60 major jr teams because their rinks are getting old.
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