We asked: What do you think about the change in management firms for the General Motors Centre? 
 

Raise our taxes even more to build more white elephants! It’s time the councillors and the mayor learned a lesson. Oshawa is not and never will be anything more then it is now. STOP spending the people’s money on big businesses that don’t care about us.

-- James Carr,  Oshawa

I really think they are going to have a hard time to get big-name acts in the GM Centre. Those acts are used to arenas or amphitheatres that can fit twice-to-three-times the amount of people that the GM Centre can hold. Which means more fans can see the act. That’s why they head for Toronto, because they have the places to fit the people that the big-name acts bring in.

 -- Roberta Robinson, Oshawa
 
I hope the citizens of Oshawa remember at election time, the councillors that voted to build the GM Centre for $50 million of taxpayers’ money, hired an incompetent Maple Leaf Sports to run it, and probably got out negotiated with the Generals as well. If they were in private business they would be bankrupt by now and that is where the City of Oshawa will be soon if council continues to spend recklessly.

-- Keith Miller, Oshawa

It’s about time the City of Oshawa changed from MLSE to Global Spectrum Management. I think MlSE had their chance and they didn’t do what they said they were going to do. Hopefully, now Global Spectrum will put acts and shows all year round. It’s a shame such a beautiful arena  sits empty in the summer months. Here’s to the change.

-- Nick Pavlakovic

I said it before and I will say it again. We paid for it, now let’s run it ourselves. I don’t know how much money City council is paying this new management team, but I am sure it’s far more than they can afford at the rate of losses they are going through. I never thought I would miss the old Civic Centre as much as I do.

-- Marven Whidden, Clarington