Greater Sudbury needs an arena and a city council willing to put politics aside — and put it downtown
I don’t really know how city councillors decide on things or what it’s like to sit on a city council.
But every once in a while, a big ticket item shakes councillors out of this commonplace competence. Suddenly, they sit up straighter, adjust the position of their microphones, clear their throats, furrow their brows and tell themselves that this, this is the kind of issue that made them run for town council in the first place.
And then private business got involved , and when private business gets too involved in community affairs, the community is usually cast into a shadier world where there will be winners and there will be losers, but it won’t be entirely clear who is whom, for after a town’s communal horses are hitched to the bespangled coaches of private interest and cross the finish line first, it could be said that all have won.
We know an arena works downtown. It has for years and years and years. Sudbury residents will support it downtown because they always have. They’ve supported it through thick and thin And still, the arena filled up. The acoustics of the building are infamously terrible, but still we packed the place for concerts.
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