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Originally Posted by Kjesse
Its fascinating that council voted 8-6 to spend 30 million of taxpayer dollars on JUST the bid, and then when the other levels of government said, sure, we'll pay 2/3 of that, but have a public vote, council seems to be stepping back.
And in the heat of the moment Nenshi "apologizes" because he says someone else (granted it was Chu) doesn't know what they're doing. All that does is polarize council which is one of the defining features of Nenshi's time in the Mayor's chair.
It appears Notley and Trudeau handled this file well, showing that the will of the Calgary public was needed, not just a small group of politicians' will, to get deep into this and pursue the Olympics. In contrast the city administration looks pretty bad here as do some of the local proponents pushing the idea forward.
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Be honest here, Bronconier was no better. I have no memory of previous councils, I'm sure they weren't love-ins either. And it's not like Farkas and Chu make it easy to get along, given their entire ineptitude and inability to understand even remotely how government works.
Plenty of other reasons to criticize him for.