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Originally Posted by Locke
Hes asked them to provide Public benefit for Public dollars. Now, I understand that quantifying the public benefit of a hockey team is difficult, but they've provided nothing.
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No, it's not... it's zero. I'll explain...
I feel like the City hasn't done a good job defining "public" (which I think, annoyingly, is deliberate). When Nenshi and council talk about "Public benefit for Public dollars" I feel they're using the term "public benefit" to mean either a revenue stream that nets out to ≥ 0 for the city or that provides a public service (a service provided by a public body).
That's why CSEC tried to sell a new football stadium as a fieldhouse & why they keep on including CRL's in the funding formula. He's trying to give the politicians some way to claim a "public benefit" with a semi-straight face. Unfortunately for him council seems to want an actual public benefit not just the ability to fraudulently claim one. Ken King wants to define public benefit as something (anything) that doesn't cost CSEC money.