Based on that CSEC statement it looks like those new costs are a red herring. What this is about is not liking the first deal and now fearing rising costs, so using the first piece of objectionable change, however trivial in the scale of the whole project, to scupper the deal.
No matter what now, any move by the city, including covering all those recent cost adds looks like capitulation. Edwards has played this well if his goal was to get out of the deal and blame someone else
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