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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
They don't have the financial capital to build such a road themselves. Tolls would never fully pay for the road either. It would probably take 30 years just to collect the cost of the road, without interest on borrowing money to build the road.
They are never going to get a significantly better deal than what is being offered now. Include opportunity cost, and there is no doubt that the best deal they can get is the deal before them now, IMO.
Assuming it's mostly a more guaranteed version of the 2009 agreement, the band would get tens of thousands of Calgarians coming to their doorstep every day, plus enough money to have a great start on developing land around the road for lease.
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This is the part that I really wish the young Tsuu Tina would take notice of. They could have a really nice business center, right beside Calgary. A big swath of land that would be east of the road, basically part of Calgary, but completely owned by the Nation. Jobs galore for Tsuu Tina, and on top of that, the Nation would have bags and bags of money in the bank.
Yeah, us whiteys shouldn't have "built our city too close to the reserve" as some people in this thread have suggested, but 100 years later, we're facing a situation that would or COULD be symbiotic. This is an opportunity that I hope gets fair presentation to the voters.