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Originally Posted by puckbrain
what happens if smith loses the provincial vote?
will this make the arena agreement fall through?
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Notely said she is open to discussion on provincial funding, but she also said some things that make it sound like she wouldn't be that interested. I think she is trying to be ambiguous in order to not piss off anyone before the election. If I had to guess, she would pull the infrastructure funding from the City.
Whether or not the City and CSEC could still work something out, who knows. From the City's perspective, they have to constantly do infrastructure upgrades all the time, and some funding does come from the province. The fact the UCP was willing to give a big chunk up front was likely the main reason why the City was ready to chip in a lot of money for the arena, since they would be spending a lot on infrastructure anyway. I think they saw the arena funding as being cancelled out somewhat by the infrastructure money.