Flames are a private business with private interests. Why should even a lick of my tax dollars go towards a new arena? Because we like hockey here too? We like Stampede but I don't recall the City giving the Calgary Stampede anything outside of a 100-year land lease. What's wrong with a similar approach with the Flames?
Of course, the big wigs will argue that an institution such as the Calgary Flames needs public support for things like this.
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