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Originally Posted by squiggs96
There is so much wrong with this post. The City of Calgary is absolutely a business. If you don't run it as such, you end up like Detroit, and go bankrupt. They may not have traditional products and/or services, but they still have over one million customers and stakeholders.
If I'm not mistaken, the Dome is owned by the City of Calgary, who leases it to the Saddledome Foundation, which is managed by the Calgary Flames. They likely don't pay for the tickets, based on this arrangement.
I'm going to guess they use it to bring key figures to the city, to woo potential high ranking employees to come work for the municipal government, entertain corporate executives that they hope to bring their corporate head office to Calgary, etc.
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I see your point and would love to know the truth behind this. I will file a FOIP request and post back in this thread when the city responds.
For those of you unfamiliar with FOIP, I highly recommend you google it.