Thursday, August 05, 2010

On parallel decisions

I won't comment much on L. Ian MacDonald's theory that the Cons' road to a majority involves spending hundreds of million dollars on a Quebec City arena, if only because there doesn't seem to be much to talk about other than whether blatant vote-buying is good or bad. (And unfortunately there isn't much room for doubt where the Harper Cons stand on that.)

But it is worth noting how such a decision might affect Saskatchewan.

After all, the latest news about Regina's domed stadium proposal is that the federal government is due to respond to an application within the next month or so. And if the Cons do plan to follow the Quebec City vote-buying plan, I'm not sure they'll have much choice but to pony up at least some money for Regina as well - since there could be no more sure way to enrage a substantial number of Saskatchewan voters than to reject years of entreaties from the team, city and province while rushing to spend on a similar project for political cronies in Quebec City.

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