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Originally Posted by Tacopuck
You dont become a world class city by doing the bare bones. Its also not about trying to glamorize the city with fancy new facilities. If we want to be a world class city we have to attract the world's best people to live here. Plain and simple. If we ever want to un-hinge Calgary's dependence on the Oil & Gas industry and expand into other markets, we need the worlds most talented people. Why would these indemand people come to a city that doesn't offer the same level of living as the cities we will be competing with.
It goes deeper than just financial justifications, think longer term.
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Because the world's most talented people could give less of a F*** about a new hockey rink and fieldhouse when deciding where to live...