A tale of three facilities

From the Ministry of Truth:

New Stadium For Clarenville
January 3, 2008

The sports and theatre communities in the Clarenville area are getting a brand new facility to call home. The $15-million building will house a 1200 seat stadium and a 275 seat theatre and a walking track. Mayor Fred Best says the site is near schools and the recreation complex. Best says some initial work has already taken place and he hopes the building will be finished within a couple of years. Best says there are also plans to install a curling rink. He says the facility will benefit many communities. The provincial government will pay 80 per cent of the cost and the town will contribute the remaining 20 per cent.

This follows the 2006 announcement that the provincial government would pay for 80% of the Polar Centre in St. Anthony.

And yet the provincial government wants the federal government to pay "the majority of the costs" of the auditorium in Happy Valley-Goose Bay?

There would appear, then, to be two ways to get the provincial government to treat a Labrador auditorium project the same as the Carbonear and St. Anthony stadium ones.

Stop calling it an "auditorium" and start calling it an "arena".

Or move it to Newfoundland.

Why are Labrador projects of the provincial government always contingent of "matching" federal funding or a federal "fair share" or the federal government "coming to the table"?

Why aren't Newfoundland ones?

Labrador is an integral part of the province.

Keep repeating it.

Labrador is an integral part of the province.

At least on tax day.