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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
If Calgary votes in the UCP because of this, your city will be the biggest =NG this province has ever seen.
would you really vote UCP because of a bribe or two for Calgary, despite all the negatives the UCP (especially the D. Smith UCP) will bring us?
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The last time a politician and the flames tried to make a flames arena an election issue the people crushed the politician.
Calgary is interesting in that it might be the mythical land of the fiscal conservative socially liberal voter. Or at least voters who think that’s what they are. If there is a project that is the opposite of that mindset it’s government money subsidizing an arena.
The deal needs to be seen as a good deal between the province and the city and the team. It needs to have more private dollars in terms of % than the Edmonton deal and it can’t look like an outright corporate subsidy. It will actually be a tricky deal to craft well to make it a political benefit.