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Originally Posted by acottawa
Watson’s talking points certainly left the impression that RTG was absorbing the risk. I am not sure the contracts were ever written that way.
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The contracts were fine. Them choosing not to impose the penalties was the problem. What's the point of having a contract, if you aren't actually going to stick to it and enforce it? They chose not to impose penalties. And they are largely sticking to that now too.
Also, in hindsight, the city should probably have just contracted Metrolinx to design and run the whole project. It was clearly too much Ottawa to do on its own.