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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This is the exact quote Dreeshen gave when talking about funding:
“Baked into the MOU is that the City of Calgary will be responsible for any cost overruns. So the maximum amount that the province is putting in is the $330 million.”
If you didn’t actually watch the press conference and didn’t actually hear the answer, how can you possibly comment on his intent or his lack of understanding? When Dreeshen said that, I also thought he meant the COC would take on all cost overruns, because that’s what he said. If I were live-tweeting it, that’s what I would have said.
Suggesting he should have understood it better or done research before relaying what was said in the press conference doesn’t make a lot of sense. That’s just looking for a reason to be mad at him.
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The problem is that his tweet took the statement out of context, because the statement was referring specifically to the civic infrastructure portion of the project that was being funded by the province, not the arena portion, and his tweet was either intentionally or carelessly nonspecific enough to be easily misinterpreted as being more negative for the city than it actually is.