puckhead103*
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When you deal with Canadian based governments and the issue of subsidizing Canadian based teams, Canadian governments tend to back away from helping their own teams in getting new arena and allow those teams leave…..
In Edmonton, the owners there want to a new arena...however, the government there is kinda lukewarm on the subject......
In Calgary, the owners want one too...however, as same as edmonton, may not want to help the flames stay.......
In Quebec, the premier didn’t want to fund the Nordiques a new arena….Nordiques bolted to Colorado…
In Winnipeg, the idiot politicians botched up on the arena issue……they knew since the late 80’s and early 90’s, the jets needed a new rink to survive, however, they screwed up….the jets bolted to phoenix…..
Back in the early 2000s, a country wide backlash happened when one of the premier wanted to subsidize Canadian based small market teams…..
And don’t tell me we got a salary cap….even when you had salary caps…teams still moved…..and if the owners don’t want to be up to their noses in debt and the government does not want put money up to provide the oil and even the flames a new arena…...they'll bolt to a US town that welcomes a "major league" team.....and enjoy the goodies (corporate support, sold out luxury suites, larger revenue streams) but the city may not have "die hard hockey fans"......
US governments are willing to bend backwards funding new arenas and attract teams there so the city leaders can stick out their chest and say "we're major league".....….….compared to their canadian counterparts...
Even though a significant base of Americans are beginning to take a stand against government subsiding sport teams, however, those governments still can get around this…
I don’t know how Canadian governments work…..but I know the government should be proactive in building an arena for the oil……and well as the flames/nords...
Do u know how the arena in KC was funded?......they put the issue on a referendum where they slapped a 1% hotel and rental car tax to fund KC’s new arena…the voters overwhelming voted and the issue got passed…..
See how easy it was…..if I lived in the big E, cowtown and le quebec…I pressure the government officials in looking at passing a 1% tax on hotels and rental car referendum just what KC did where purchases all tax revenues will go for a new arena……and if you don't want a new arena....we'll vote you out of office.....
In Edmonton, the owners there want to a new arena...however, the government there is kinda lukewarm on the subject......
In Calgary, the owners want one too...however, as same as edmonton, may not want to help the flames stay.......
In Quebec, the premier didn’t want to fund the Nordiques a new arena….Nordiques bolted to Colorado…
In Winnipeg, the idiot politicians botched up on the arena issue……they knew since the late 80’s and early 90’s, the jets needed a new rink to survive, however, they screwed up….the jets bolted to phoenix…..
Back in the early 2000s, a country wide backlash happened when one of the premier wanted to subsidize Canadian based small market teams…..
And don’t tell me we got a salary cap….even when you had salary caps…teams still moved…..and if the owners don’t want to be up to their noses in debt and the government does not want put money up to provide the oil and even the flames a new arena…...they'll bolt to a US town that welcomes a "major league" team.....and enjoy the goodies (corporate support, sold out luxury suites, larger revenue streams) but the city may not have "die hard hockey fans"......
US governments are willing to bend backwards funding new arenas and attract teams there so the city leaders can stick out their chest and say "we're major league".....….….compared to their canadian counterparts...
Even though a significant base of Americans are beginning to take a stand against government subsiding sport teams, however, those governments still can get around this…
I don’t know how Canadian governments work…..but I know the government should be proactive in building an arena for the oil……and well as the flames/nords...
Do u know how the arena in KC was funded?......they put the issue on a referendum where they slapped a 1% hotel and rental car tax to fund KC’s new arena…the voters overwhelming voted and the issue got passed…..
See how easy it was…..if I lived in the big E, cowtown and le quebec…I pressure the government officials in looking at passing a 1% tax on hotels and rental car referendum just what KC did where purchases all tax revenues will go for a new arena……and if you don't want a new arena....we'll vote you out of office.....
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