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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I wish both sides would stop fighitng the public battle - and just figure out a mutually beneficial solution.
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I wish people would stop mischaracterizing this as a both sides issue.
The city of Calgary is not interested in building the Calgary Flames a new hockey arena or a fieldhouse.
The Flames are asking the city for assistance, not the other way around, and had they been genuine about it, they wouldn't have sent letters about financing after the fact, they would have engaged with the city directly at any point in the preceding 10 years to figure out the timing and orchestration for such a large project.
The city has already allocated their infrastructure dollars for the next 3 years. Did the Calgary Flames REALLY think they could submit some drawings and hold some presentations and un-do the whole civic infrastructure plan just because they are the Flames?
The arrogance is dripping wet, and Nenshi is completely within the realms of decency and professionalism to call them out on their absurd strategy to manipulate the public into believing that the city either wants this project to go ahead ("The money for a field house is already budgeted" - Abject lie) or that they are the major obstacle towards it being completed.
Absolutely laughable that the only thing so far that has any traction in the whole plan is the city paying for and conducting it's own review of the site without even a plan submitted yet by the Flames.
This idea that Nenshi should be anything other than skeptical of any and all private interest proposals with public dollars is alarming.