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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I have to laugh at the idea of Nenshi and The Flames being on equal footing here.
Nenshi represents the interests of the citizens of Calgary. It's not his job to come up with alternate solutions to hamfisted proposals, and yet the city of Calgary has funded studies, proposed alternate locations and conducted public opinion polling on the project.
They've green lit exploration of an olympic bid that would almost certainly tie into arena funding, have been meeting with the Flames weekly apparently, and all of this in an election year where the discussion of public money for private interest is a political hand grenade.
Nenshi and council have probably done more, and spent more, than they should have on the various arena proposals.
Is the idea that Nenshi should be 'nicer' to the Flames, who are indirectly threatening to leave the city? Is that how negotiations usually go in business? Not in my experience.
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Don't think I ever said equal. If you don't think Nenshi has been political, a grand stander, and wildly inconsistent then fine. Not trying to convince you.
I think they've both been weasels from the get go, but that's just my opinion.
They do need to work together if the city wants a say in adding to a development though. The East Village is the city's vision, they've asked the Flames to look at it, basically taking control of things. The Calgary Next project was the Flames.
If they want an arena over there, of course they are driving the bus.