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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Come on, in a country where 67 percent of the new NHL arena's are 100 percent privately funded you think that zero dollars from the taxpayer and 100 percent private funding is extreme? That is the norm in Canada, the extreme view is begging taxpayers for money when free enterprisers in Quebec do it without help from the taxpayer tit.
Surely Mr. Katz, the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Oilers single handedly have not transformed something from extreme and rarely used by Canadian standards to acceptable and normal have they? They have not taken something that other Canadian cities have felt is no good and made it good? I personally refuse to believe that that extreme position is now the new normal in Canada.
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Every single one of those projects received some sort of public/infrastructure spending. Every one.
The cost of the buildings were 100% privately funded, not the cost of the total project.
I believe the lowest was 13M in the case of the ACC (about 5% of the total cost) but still something.
You could include Winnipeg, where there was at least at a somewhat reasoned split, instead of singling out the stupidity of what Edmonton did. Nobody is advocating that.
Should the Flames bear 100% of the cost to connect LRT to a new facility?