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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I haven't been following our flood mitigation plan that closely but remember that the number was around 366 million to get a system in place (coincidentally about the same as our Olympic tag). The province would cover some, the feds a tiny bit, but the city would pay the most. I know we have some flood benches in Eau Claire now but I don't think we've accomplished any of the larger damns, reservoirs or flood tunnels we were talking about.
I know for sure I would vote to spend that money on the biggest, baddest flood prevention model we could get. I don't think this is a case of "this money isn't meant for that and that money can come from somewhere else blah blah". I think it's 300 million and we're spending it on sports instead. Even if we get a bunch of cool stuff, we still need 300 million for future flood mitigation to protect our cool stuff. I would highly suspect that getting Olympic funding would preclude us from more federal/provincial money.
I'm asking more of a question than stating any facts. Do we still need flood mitigation? And do we still get money for that?
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Interesting tweet.. I saw about this... Showing Vancouver didn't get any less funding after receiving Olympic funding.
https://twitter.com/sarahcrgr/status...67149153849344