To be fair, First Lady's sarcasm was difficult to detect due to history of getting facts about this project wrong, misunderstanding concepts used in discussing it (such as what "walkability" is and why it matters), and unwillingness to reassess her positions based on the previous two.
Sarcasm or not, it (and SeoulFire's post above) helps to illustrate part of why and to what scale people are so up in arms about this project (and other things too, such as Bow River Flow). It goes beyond the process and administrative problems. It's simply a matter of the fact that people like First Lady and her husband (and others) don't particularly like the types of people that would use and enjoy these projects, to the point where facts (Peace Bridge), process (Bow River Flow) and similarity to other things they do not have the same inherent disdain for are ignored in an attempt to justify it.
|