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Originally Posted by Bingo

You guys don't think they saw all this coming?

Back away from negotiations in a splashy way by walking the commissioner out (their biggest mistake in my mind) and then what? They expected a megalomaniac mayor to bite his tongue and not come out with details?

Nenshi loves to talk, they knew he's be shooting back in a variety of ways. King et al have been frustrated for months at the slow pace of the negotiations, this gets it right out in the open which had to have been their plan.

To each their own on what public money should be included but regardless of the landing point I think the CSEC wants to see this moving and not being snail paced through endless private meetings.

I would say that even if they saw this coming they should likely have been aware of the fact that a looming Election was going to have a negative impact on the pace of negotiations.

Now it looks more like Political Grandstanding against what is a virtual slam-dunk Mayor.