No deal where the City spends more than a penny is going to please everyone. The fury and hot-headedness of this is expected, because it's a big contentious issue with a million opinions and its a Calgary tradition to complain about City spending.
This is one project that needs a Private/Public partnership to get done and keep professional hockey in town. At some point we just have to shut up and get the deal done, consulting Calgarians again is just going to waste time and inevitably end up in the gutter yet again.
While I'm not educated enough to comment on the specifics of the deal, sometimes you just have to pull the trigger and bring people kicking and screaming. And even then it doesn't sound like it's even that bad after all.
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