Article by Eric D on this - he was in the scrum with Nenshi today
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“Here is the most important part of all this – and what I was getting at a little snarkily yesterday,” said Nenshi. “In other cities, these sorts of deals are presented to the public as a fait accompli, with a gift-wrapped ribbon on them. That is not how we have chosen to operate. That’s not how council, in public, unanimously decided to move forward. The idea here is, we’re going to let the public in.
“There’s going to be no question about where the funding is coming from. There’s not going to be any mystery about that. And we’ll really look hard to get public input on all this.”
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“The first step is determining whether the site the Flames picked – not the city, but the Flames – even works at all. We have to know what the level of the environmental contamination is. We have to figure out how much it would cost to fix that. If we’re using a community revitalization tool, we have to figure out if there’s even money in the [community revitalization levy] to clean up the pollution, let alone to have a surplus in order to invest in anything.”
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...ticle28139449/
I haven't been following this debate in detail, so this clarifies the city's position quite a bit
Video of the scrum is here