At no point did I ever say that a leftist government would build the rink faster. All I said was that the apprehension of the political right would stall the development of said arena until it costs a lot more than it would now. Council should just grow a set of balls, and tell people the benefits of building the rink far out way the downsides and then go ahead and build the (frank)ing thing. Instead they see expenditure of public funds on an infrastructure development as a way for them to lose their job, when it should be viewed as a way to create jobs. Would the left be guarded in their approach. sure, but the left ideology is more aligned with this sort of political decision, and they would be more comfortable with it.
- marty11

They did by announcing they were going ahead with it...

anyways - there's no way a lefty gov would move faster on this... they'd never spend the money on it when there's homelessness, abused people needing shelters, mentally ill who need support...

At no point did I ever say that a leftist government would build the rink faster. All I said was that the apprehension of the political right would stall the development of said arena until it costs a lot more than it would now. Council should just grow a set of balls, and tell people the benefits of building the rink far out way the downsides and then go ahead and build the (frank)ing thing. Instead they see expenditure of public funds on an infrastructure development as a way for them to lose their job, when it should be viewed as a way to create jobs. Would the left be guarded in their approach. sure, but the left ideology is more aligned with this sort of political decision, and they would be more comfortable with it.
- marty11

Is there even a stall at this point? Yes it's in the media, but we knew about this two weeks ago and I don't think any start dates have changed.

You know the best part is tax revenues were also understated. Anyone know how much more tax revenues the city will now get out of this?

I'll give you a hint, it's more than what Katz paid for the Oilers and what the cost of the new barn is at combined.