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Originally Posted by calculoso
Anyone think that the P3 Sports program money is going to be used for the Oilers / Flames new rinks instead?
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No - professional sports facilities didn't qualify. Now Sport infrastructure of any type has magically disappeared from their funding criteria after the announcement happened. So there are 15 categories of eligible projects now, instead of 16.
City followed P3 Canada's own rules and eligibilty requirements and was asked to apply specifically BECAUSE it was rec centres and they wanted to fund this type of project. It was unanimously approved and then someone within the Governing Conservative Party decided they didn't like it - so rejected. Waste of everyone's time and money.
I don't think anyone across Canada would have cared at all if the government helped fund a bunch of rec centres in Calgary. This wasn't some dubious Shawinigan or Muskoka project.