[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by Bunk

It always pays off to have the local fire-power in the Federal Government doesn't it?

Today the Federal Government rejected (through a 3 line letter) between $82m and $100m for 4 major recreation centres in NW and SE Calgary. This despite the federal governments own crown corporation, P3 Canada, approaching the City to go with a P3 model, spending 2 years, countless staff time, and $3.1m of City money going down this path at their request. P3 Canada unanimously approved Calgary's application from a $1.8b pool of funds. The rejection comes from the political level the the Government of Canada. The City has already come to the table with 3/4 of the funding thanks to the new Community Investment Fund.

Of course this comes a week after they funded $122m for a museum in Edmonton that everyone wanted to go back to the drawing board. It's also worth remembering that Calgary sends $10 billion per year more in taxes to Ottawa than we get back on transfers and services. This is 1% of that imbalance.

Please call your MP.

I tried, they said he was sleeping*

*joke shamelessly stolen from @buzzbishop on twitter