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Originally Posted by Slava
This is what concerns me. It's being rushed through under the guise of momentum, but what they don't want is people digging into things and asking too many questions. It's really pathetic.
And lest anyone think otherwise, I'm in favour of a new arena. I support the Flames and city, and I think it's got to happen. That just doesn't mean at any cost though. I've come to grips with the fact that public money is going to subsidize a private business and no one will spend the political capital to change that for some reason. But come on...just level with us and show us the numbers so we know what we're actually on the hook for.
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People take this stuff far too personally like it's coming out of their own personal bank account. Plenty of people were against stuff like the bridge and library but the reality is that they got built, they moved the city forward, plenty of Calgarians like them and use them daily, and the dissenters were not inconvenienced in any manner outside of the fact that they didn't get their way. I get that we should know that they just aren't throwing tax payer money away but you really aren't on the hook for anything.