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Originally Posted by Eubee
Because Calgary is one of the NHL's top markets I personally feel that the owners can threaten to move but ultimately will not. I agree that on the surface, why should the average tax payer pay for a building they may never enter because of the cost? That being said, although I can enter a library downtown, I may never do so. And I help pay for it. The difference is that I can, if I want to, and get benefit from it at no cost. That is a big difference.
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It's perhaps worth noting that some of Winnipeg's most prosperous years were the decade and a half between the original and the new Jets being in town.