Quote:
Originally Posted by zhulander
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-he...events.html#a5
The limit has always been 50% from Federal, it really shouldn't be a surprise for anyone especially on the yes side, as it comes from the same requirements of the Federal Policy for Hosting International Sport Events sets out that the Government of Canada will consider support for the hosting of two IMMG every 10 years.
The city and the province are probably the ones to blame. They needed to have a combined contribution of $1.5 billion somehow but missed the mark.
|
Yes, but somehow Nenshi was under the impression that this was going to be changed based on his statements that the Federal government new that the matching rule was not acceptable per this bid. If there was no way that this would change the bid shouldn't have been started.
So the question is where did this idea that the feds would waive the matching requirements come from. Nenshi assuming that the feds would cave or the feds implying that changes were possible and then bailing when it wasn't politically expedient.