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Originally Posted by Sliver
Seems like a good idea to me. With all the limitations on developing Banff, Canmore should definitely be further developed out of necessity. Did you guys even go to Banff or Lake Louise this summer? They were packed beyond what the towns could hold. They were even turning people away from Louise.
The demand for the mountains is only increasing, but development can't keep up within the national parks. Adding more things to do in Canmore will relieve pressure on the other towns, which needs to happen.
If you guys like hiking you'll be fine. This will take away 0.00000001% of the hiking trails in the Rockies, but give a lot of people more opportunities to enjoy the mountains.
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Canmore is also at or near full capacity in the summer. It doesn't need a casino to attract people. It sure as #### doesn't need one of Canada's biggest conference centres. The staff alone would add 5% to Canmore's population. Oh, and you sound like Sheila Copps, just for the record...
The problem is, there isn't a lot of room for development in Canmore. It can only handle so many people(and less, now that they've built ####ing golf courses everywhere). Wildlife have been squeezed out as well. one of the arguments they used to make for a golf course is it doesn't have a lot of people on it, so wildlife aren't impacted that badly. A conference centre? Good luck with that.
When you say this will take away a small portion of hiking trails...we will wait and see. The golf courses weren't supposed to have a big impact, but once they decimated the wildlife corridors and a women got eaten by a cougar, well they closed one of the best trails in the valley. It was legendary. But hey! Golf! This will be the same ####. It's also pushed property taxes higher to pay for all the bungling that has gone on over the years.
This is just another bunch of rich tools looking to cash in on natural beauty at the expensive of everyone else because golf is dying and that plan didn't quite work out.