I would love to see this happen! IMHO Calgary (and Alberta as a whole) really needs something positive feeling to rally behind and get everyone excited to get back onto the world stage for something other than oil and rodeo. The sad truth is it feels like we have fallen away in relevancy on the world stage which sucks because we do have a lot to offer. With the way oil and the Stampede is portrayed in the world media today, we are getting overwhelmed by the enviro police type attitudes and are constantly being made to look like we are the world enemy to outsiders, and this is a huge stage to help us show how much more we are as well as giving us a stage to show that we are actually leaders and not the dirty polluters they say we are...
It just needs to be done properly, which is always the rub.
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