I hate to be cold and sour. But,
HELLO! NEWSFLASH FELLOW WINNIPEGGERS...
JETS ARE NOT (you read that right), YES, ARE NOT COMING BACK.
Better pinch yourselves, this ain't a dream,
this is reality.

DUH!

Absolutely insane! PCs and their leader are truly out of touch with the general population. Prohibitally expensive entertainment. As a pro sport , it is dying in popularity, and no wonder, with the level of violence that it continues to promote both through commentary and on-ice action. Just for the record, my wife and I had season tickets to the old Jets for over 10 years

McFadyn has lost touch with reality! He obviously has not taken a course in Economics and based on his election promises, would be a disaster as the Premier of Manitoba.

The one thing that EVERYONE has failed to mention is that it is NOT Hugh McFayden's decision to make. Even if he can find enough wealthy people silly enough to waste their money on another losing NHL cause here in Winnipeg. WE can't even get behind the Moose when they their best year EVER in franchise history.

McFayden is out of touch with the majority of voters who work hard for their money. Every time he opens his mouth to espouse Conservative values, he alienates the majority of the electorate who struggle to make a living and don't earn a triple digit family income.

I will only support a NHL hockey team in Manitoba when we can give guns to millionaire players and have them serve as police officers when they are not playing hockey or maybe have them act as doctors or nurses.
How about making them live in Manitoba year round and pay taxes here.
Get your priority in order

Good Lord someone is trying to revive this again? This is lame and as much as I feel everyone is entitled to their Hero's and worshiping there in, please..... keep it funded from your own private pockets.... pay the $70.00 and up per ticket but keep the tax payers out of it. We have grown weary of all the leaches on our dollars.

I can't believe that the Manitoba election is about the Jets hockey team. What about us in the north that do not even have 3 candidates running and very little if any news about the election at all. Are people just fed up with all the promises and then the same old stuff that happens time and time again and it doesn't matter who gets elected? I know some seniors who don't even plan on voting!

If they did bring back the Jets, that wouldn't keep me here. As a university student, I am not looking for jobs here in MB I am looking elsewhere, there is not enough opportunities for work here. I am sure the Jets will not keep all the recent graduated doctors here.

I believe there need to be other areas investigated, not the Jets.

Mayor Katz won his first election seducing the young with Sports. Is that what drives people to vote, the hormones?

There's some real issues to address and not one of the Parties is stepping up to the plate, either because they are embarrassed or they quietly support the problems. We need Hydro to fulfill its deal with the First Nations that were affected by the flooding for new dams. We need to address Northern Migration since the last 140 years so that everybody comes out a winner - rebuild inner-city homes, train new tradesmen, hand over the Urban Reserve land, focus on industries that don't endanger or stress our dysfunctional Water Treatment and Water input aquifers, especially into Winnipeg. We need to take down the Interprovincial Trade Barriers and allow Manitobans to buy Canadian produce and save the fuel costs, reduce the risk of contamination from foreign producers. We need to promote Canadian Energy efficient products like the Bird Friendly wind generators in Quebec, or the R-33 Siding from Saskatchewan. I just shake my head at the Parties avoiding the long-term issues that prepare us in a drought-prone province for the effects of global warming. Instead they play us like kids with eye-candy, dumb ads, and double-speak. Sad statement of quality politics. No guts.

Don't forget the Conservatives were the Government when the Jets left. McFadyn is such a lightweight he could never organize the return. Doesn't mention any private investors either. Will the taxpayer pick up the whole tab.

How can politicians talk of spending so much money on sports teams which are monetarily supported by so few, and ignore public spaces like Assinboine Park which is used by so many? It just continues to deteriorate due to political inaction at any level of government. Good public spaces seem to be off the radar in this election, but they are good for people and good for the environment.

I love the NHL and love to have the Jets back.

However, I have been to see the Minnesota Wild at the XCel Energy centre and our new arena just isn't quite there. They sell out 18,000+ seats every game and have two levels of Box seats going right around.

We would be the smallest market with the smallest arena. The team wouldn't have the revenue to compete. Yes we could become the Montreal Expos of the NHL having a great system to develop young stars but look what happened to them.

At $70 dollars average, as Mr. Chipman stated, how often could a middle class family go? The Jets of old rarely sold out the old barn what's the difference now?

As for investors, very few NHL teams are making money, what would be different in Winnipeg? "Jet Bonds?". No thank you, I would want a return on my money.

One last question, how many people left the province because we don't have a NHL team?

We have a fun team right now, the Manitoba Moose. I don't think we could support an NHL team, and anyway, it's not the average person who can afford to go, it's not "Manitoba's youth". Like anywhere, an NHL franchise is so expensive that ticket prices rise, and it becomes something that is not "patriotic" in the sense that you can go root for your team without paying the equivalent of your monthly shelter costs. It becomes a corporate entertainment expense, which I am not interested in having corporations "expense" anyway. If I go to a game, I have to pay taxes on the money I paid for the ticket, I don't think a business should be able to expense all that stuff.

As for conservatism being representative of a kind of fiscal responsibility, I think this promise is foolish and rash, totally irresponsible. It doesn't even pretend to uphold the more principled values traditionally held by conservatives. I hate to mince words, so I'll just say it strikes me as idiotic and pandering to the rich.