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Originally Posted by Reneeee
Well do they benefit monetarily from building 15 libraries? No, they dont. Library's are losing investments but they are still ones they choose to make because it provides and education benefit to the city.
The City of Calgary wants to keep the Flames around, and a deal will be done using public dollars, now they just need to sort out how many egos can step aside before they can actually negotiate with cooler heads.
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Libraries are not investments: they are cultural institutions. Furthermore, they are *owned* by the City, not private individuals, and they contribute to the cultural wealth of the City, not to the financial wealth of said private individuals.
The only way a deal gets done is if the Flames ownership does a large and public
mea culpa (a sort of "my bad" for those who don't know Latin) and makes an offer or set of parameters that are actually reasonable.
The Flames are trying to make it about Nenshi, but that misses the point: he is but one of many, and there are numerous others who believe that you can't repeat the Edmonton mistake. They will pay for that mistake in spades for decades.