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Originally Posted by Bingo
It's unprofessional to propose a deal similar to a city 300KMs from Calgary?
I was never expecting it to fly, but it was a logical opening, the mayor bloviating before the fact doesn't change that. i'm sure I could find 100 quotes from the city of Edmonton saying what they wouldn't do before that negotiation started
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It wasn't just the mayor it was the whole council as well.
Obviously city officials understood where CSEC was angling based on closed doors meetings with them over the past 5 years. The City went through public channels to broadcast to CSEC that it wasn't what they wanted to do.
In any case, CSEC's strategy, (if it was to build CalgaryNEXT) utterly failed. So I don't think you're making a strong point. They started a negotiation and lost so it's fair to say that they should have started negotiating from a different position than Edmonton's.