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Originally Posted by Bingo
But you're responding.
I have no problem with any of that. That's the difference. You're providing reasons and that in itself is a professional response.
Add in the his pet project of an olympic bid which has zero chance without new facilities and the whole thing comes across as hollow and grandstanding.
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Ok, but you realize the arena is 90-100% likely to happen right? Unless the Flames go off the deep end and try to get $200 million from the city for the building itself, this will get done. But CalgaryNEXT was always a terrible idea, forget the presentation that was lackluster, the idea itself was flawed. City has no incentive to give the $200 million when it can use that money on it's own, 100% public facility. Flames just tried to get a new building for the Stamps for basically free, which is their right to attempt. And it's Nenshi's right (really, it's his obligation) to call a bad project a bad project.