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Originally Posted by transplant99
Again....this is the point where i ask why the city agreed to it. Every councillor agreed according to reports. No one was holding a gun to their collective heads.
As for the provincial part of this....is infrastructure money for cities not a legitimate expense/spending of funds?
If its being used to finally get this arena done...isn't that a win for everyone?
Building roads/access to Stampede/Victoria park is worse than some overpass or whatever on Deerfoot?
I really do understand why people are upset, it is not a great deal. Thing is, it was always going to be something along these lines or nothing at all. I think the city is better with it than not... knowing full well others disagree with that.
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I think the city is better with it at as well. I'd rather the province not jump in and subsidize the Edwards which is how I see the deal. If it was 500 - 600 mil a piece by the city and the CSEC I don't think you'd see as much anger towards the deal. I still wouldn't like it, but I realize that how I think the deal should break down isn't going to happen.
Our provincial government just gave the CSEC half the money for the project they weren't involved in previously. Terrible terrible deal.
As for why the city agreed, I'm not sure. I guess from their perspective maybe it's because they are paying for less than half of the project now.