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Originally Posted by beyeas
He should have kept his mouth shut and said something simply along the lines of "I have no comment as there is no official request for funding being made to the NS government at this time. Once such a request has been made and analyzed I will have a comment at that time." Instead his off the cuff comment was taken as a 100% shoot-down of the idea, and at a time that he didn't even need to comment.
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I agree, although it was pretty obvious then that there wasn't any particular stadium plan and that all of this was therefore premature.
Part of the issue here is the extremely low signal to noise ratio for all of this stuff. If Dexter says one thing we get dozens of articles (e.g. Tim Bousquet, who just makes things up, and the CH, which paints everything as "controversial") and forum posts with theories based on almost zero evidence that often obviously make no sense. The Nova Centre suffered from this despite the fact that the whole process played out in a very slow, straightforward, predictable way.
Anybody remember the speculation about how Dexter was going to kill the whole thing because he's NDP?