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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I've never really jumped on the Nenshi is arrogant bandwagon. But wow what an arrogant git. The party requesting the plebiscite is the city.
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It's pretty obvious he means the province. They're the ones making funding contingent on a plebiscite, so he wants them to pay for the plebiscite. Is that a crazy position? I don't think so.
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He's not opposed to a plebiscite but doesn't want one in case it comes back as a no.
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Has he said this somewhere? Because he didn't in the statement you quoted. He's talking about scheduling - if the bid is going forward, the city's going to have to start working on it, probably before the plebiscite occurs. If they hold the plebiscite too early, there won't be enough time for people voting to inform themselves to make the right decision. But if they wait too long, they'll have spent more time and money on a preparation process that could be moot if the answer from Calgary is "no". Which would be a waste. This, again, is 100% correct.
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And it's expensive. But it might mean they've wasted even more money exploring the bid. Geez. I guess you should have ponied up a bit sooner kid.
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This is silly. You're presupposing that your own political position - that a plebiscite always should have been assumed to be mandatory - is correct, and then getting angry at Nenshi for not sharing that assumption. His position is that the city didn't call for it, the province did, so the province should pay for it, not the city. So no, the city shouldn't have "ponied up" sooner, or at all, by his lights.