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Originally Posted by milomilo
Who's to say that we trust the government to build large projects now? If we are going to be spending money on an arena, then absolutely I'd rather any risk of cost over run would be covered by the private sector and not by the City.
I think it's fair to say that an arena has lower risk of cost over run than an Olympics also. Not only is it a less complicated project, but there is not the same time constraint. An Olympics absolutely must be completed by a certain date, no matter the cost, whereas if there are delays on an arena, it's not as big of a deal.
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Milomilo - there is no need to be defensive about having squandered the massive opportunity that the Olympics extended to Calgary of having many billions of dollars from outside the city come to us. It is done. Move on. Now we're stuck with paying for things from our modest municipal budget, and we need to live with that.
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