Moving the CFR to Red Deer will be great for Red Deer, bad for the CFR, and it won’t mean a lick to Edmonton.
The CFR will bring more people to Red Deer, and fill the city for a week.
There aren’t enough seats in the stands, or corporate backing to really prop up the rodeo. But they really have no other option. Saskatoon fell through. Calgary doesn’t want it. Vancouver would be a PETA nightmare. I think at this point they should be happy just to have a place that would take them.
And Edmonton has a PBR, at the same time as Farm Fair I believe, which is all people really want anyway.
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