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Originally Posted by RyeJay
HRM Mayor Mike Savage recently brought up his support for a stadium to journalists. Well see where this goes... We may have to wait until after the next provincial election to get some traction. The rest of Nova Scotia isn't doing well, and taxpayers aren't going to view a new stadium in Halifax (if part of its investment is with public funds) as an investment beyond just Halifax.
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It would be interesting to see a poll taken outside Halifax. There might be more support outside HRM than people think. I think there is just as much provincial pride in Nova Scotia as anywhere in Canada. When the Halifax Metro Centre was built in Halifax back in the late 1970's, and I was living in Cape Breton, I didn't see any opposition from residents of Cape Breton. I even remember a Sydney-area talk show bringing up the topic of the NBA in Halifax (back around 1978). People talked about it in positive terms, even though it was only imaginable on a talk-show program.
This is a question for people living outside the HRM; do you think there would be opposition to a sensibly-priced stadium being built in the Halifax-area if it were built so that it could be expanded for the CFL?
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