Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
It'll just be the same shell-game thats going on now.
"The Province will not put up money for a private arena, however, the City of Edmonton can use civic-assigned money in a fund that the Province funnels money into...."
|
Exactly. This whole fiasco has been an embarrassment to the City of Edmonton, the Province of Alberta, and the Katz Group. Everybody involved looks bad.
The Katz Group has its hand out looking for a publicly funded building which they will use to earn huge profits, and got caught in a political donation scandal which looks like they tried to buy a favour.
The Province (the Tories, more particularly) look weak in the knees and gloss over the fact they are funding this arena.
The City of Edmonton is making a gift to a billionaire, supported mostly by people who earn incomes such that they can't even afford to buy tickets to the games.
The whole thing stinks.