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In his electoral campaign video, TMR Mayor Peter Malouf quite rightly identified certain issues as being regional in character rather than just local, such as a bussed-in overpopulation in TMR schools or GPS-guided traffic taking shortcuts through our narrow residential streets. Yet he abandons this thinking when he comes to the popular and Olympic sport of curling, preferring to simply expropriate the citizen-built TMR Curling Club without considering the regional impact of such a move, because he thinks it would be a "nice" spot for an indoor pool.
The Quebec government deemed the VMR Curling Club important enough to contribute $352,000 to rebuilding its refrigeration system in 2019. The 29 boroughs and suburbs on Montreal Island are collectively served by 7 curling clubs. This number is currently sufficient, but only barely. They all necessarily draw part of their membership from beyond their home political entity, as do all curling clubs in metropolitan areas across Canada. They are almost all non-profit, volunteer creations of their members, not of their local municipalities, and they pay a very large part of their costs themselves, unlike any municipal recreation program.
The loss of the largest curling club in Québec, TMR's, would have a severe negative impact on the sport locally, regionally, and provincially. The Québec government thought the TMR Curling Club important enough to contribute $352,000 to rebuild its refrigeration system in 2019, a replacement that happens about every 25 years, and an investment that would be scrapped barely 3 years later if the Mayor’s thinking prevails. He needs to apply his laudable "outside the box" thinking to curling, as he has done on other issues. Another spot can be found for a new pool.
Cliff Carrie
TMR
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