Fear Mongering in the Crowsnest Pass (Crowsnest Centre)

"Fear mongering (or scaremongering) is the use of fear to leverage the opinions and actions of others towards some end".

The Crowsnest Centre debate continues, some people will go to any length to keep this facility open.

Up to and including Fear Mongering,

We used to have four schools in the Crowsnest Pass! Why don't we today? because we have an aging population therefore less kids, we don't need four.

We used to have three grocery stores! why don't we have them today? because a lot of people shop out of town, in other words we don't need three.

The reality of the Chinook Education Consortium is if there is a need for it, it will be here. If the Centre burned down this weekend would that be the end of the consortium? of course not if the consortium leaves it's because there is no longer a need for it.

We have spent the better part of seventeen years trying to turn the Crowsnest Centre into a convention centre, if there was really a need don't you think the private sector would have put one in by now?

Yes supporters of the centre are clouding the issues, do I support the groups that are in the centre? "One hundred percent". There is a place in this community for ever group, does it have to be the centre? No

When you get the time take a look at our facilities determine yourself if we are using them effectivily!


Remember the politicians may make the decisions but it's you the taxpayer that pays for them.

Let reason, logic and common sense decide this debate not "Fear Mongering"