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Originally Posted by acottawa
Yes, Mr. Poulin has been reporting an interest in buying the Senators since 2016
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news...-to-buy-senators-from-melnyk-source-says
so last week's article is not exactly news. Telling the press something that helps to hype one's construction company and putting together money for a serious offer are two different things.
You're also mixing up different fanboy theories. Is Mr. Demarais trying to buy (or has secretly already bought) the Senators, which would make him the owner of SSE, the lead partner in the RVL group or is Mr. Demarais hoping RVL fails, hoping the NCC turns to Devcore (despite concerns about the proposal's viability), hope that Mr. Poulin can get the band back together, and hope that Mr. Melnyk decides he wants to sell to Mr. Poulin and others? Those two fanboy theories are mutually exclusive (i.e. buying the Senators would screw Mr. Poulin).
Meanwhile, Mr. Demarais just returned to work last week after being on medical leave for most of the last year. There is no evidence he is taking steps to set himself up to purchase the Senators, such as selling significant numbers of Power shares (which would have to be publicly disclosed). There is no evidence he is trying to build any ties to the Ottawa community (the Devcore presentation didn't event warrant a two hour limo ride). There is no evidence he was willing to put significant money into the Devcore bid (the NCC wouldn't have had as many concerns about viability if he had).
So we have the owner of a mid-sized construction company who put together a pretty flimsy bid two years ago, who likes to talk big and a bunch of fanboys on twitter grasping at a theory of the week. |
Right. So fanboy (of himself) acottawa on SSP wants us to believe that Mr. Poulin is talking a bunch of nonsense in the media and in doing so is implicating the names of a couple high power billionaires, among others. We're also to believe that said billionaires have no interest in any of this but are sitting idly by while this guy uses their names to plug his construction company. Said billionaires must think it's adorable. We're also to think that said billionaires need to sell off considerable assets to make such a deal happen (I guess acottawa knows somehow that they don't have the necessary liquidity) thus providing the necessary "evidence" to convince acottawa on SSP.
How's that for theory of the week? Methinks you like the sound/look of your prose a bit much.
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