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Originally Posted by TheKurgan
Why? It's still $250mil dollar of taxpayer money going into something for the people of the city to use. And it is free to enter because, we again as taxpayers, pay $50mil ($43mil city /$6mil provincial in 2015) per year to keep it running.
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If the city pays for a rink then they should own the rink and derive all the profits from owning said rink.
In that case I don't have a problem with it.
I'm not all that happy that Edmonton pays for Katz's rink and he takes all the profit. Calgary should avoid this scenario.