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Originally Posted by heep223
Vancouver and Victoria are miles and miles ahead on this. Tech parks etc.
As to OP, nobody should bail out Bombardier.
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And they are also getting bought up by China. The cost of living is absolutely ridiculous and it's hard for businesses to successfully operate there. Not to mention both cities are becoming the Miami of Canada for wealthy retired people.
It makes a lot of sense for Calgary to go this route. The Tech industry is wiping out other industries left, right and center. You can either become the predator or remain the prey.
And it's not like Calgary is devout of Technology companies in the first place. Plenty of Web design companies, gaming companies, SMART technology, etc.
The Java programming language was invented in Calgary. It's already in our blood!