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Originally Posted by stamps
Yet he has no appetite for using public funds for a piece of infrastructure that will help keep NHL hockey and other events that would benefit Calgarians locally for the next thirty years ???
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You say this, and yet the legacy of the Olympics gives us more publicly usable spaces than a new arena gifted to billionaires would. Amateur sport getting support is a good thing.
I'd love to see the Olympics here and I do think they offer a good legacy for the city, but the numbers don't make sense for Calgary right now. I'd also love the Flames to stay put in a new arena, but not for what they're asking for right now. Right now, I don't think the money works for either of these.