The province has already spent $5 million on a new sports and wellness dome for the capital city, but the current government says the project will not be going ahead.

The PCs are scrapping the facility, despite the fact that site work has been carried out and materials for the dome, including steel and fabric, are already in storage waiting to be erected.

Infrastructure Minister Barry Petten says the material won’t go to waste.

“Someone else maybe wants a dome.”

Petten says the project is being abandoned because a December cost estimate had jumped to $18 million from the $13 million projection in 2024.

Petten claims it “makes no sense” to have the dome by itself, saying the province does not plan on “storing it forever.”

He’s looking for ways to repurpose the materials.