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Originally Posted by q12
The spectacle Save the View put on during the height of this debate was unbelievable. Bringing in so called experts on conventions, which in itself was a convention was quite ironic. 
I do not doubt for one minute they they are working hard still to prevent the convention centre from proceeding. They probably will go online posting comments using different aliases saying that they are not concerned about the height to make it look as if there is some large opposition to this project based on taxes. |
I totally agree that different aliases may be used. Aside from that, I also think that there are alot of people with mixed up opinions about this.
I love the irony in hosting a convention that says conventions aren't viable anymore.
Everybody who thinks there are no industry/trade events in Canada is simply trying to cash in on the opposition towards such poor investments in places like recessionville USA. Why not have a convention and charge people money to make them be against trade centres in their local area!
Look at this one website with only future Canadian events selected as the search:
http://www.tsnn.com/search/events?title=&country=Canada
I stopped after about 4-5 pages because there were so many events I figure Halifax can get a bigger piece of this pie with a better facility. We are only an hour away from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and represent the whole atlantic region.
Even if the convention centre part wasn't uber successful, its still the type of public infrastructure like libraries, etc that our city needs. I would prefer anything above the current volume of people we have coming here... and its not for our libraries or skating oval.
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