Comment 53621

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted December 22, 2010 at 18:22:36

Let's see, hmmm, how much money is the city turning down from the feds and province in this matter? Regardless of your take on this, many many people outside of Hamilton are laughing now, at the city and not the TigerCats. That is money that would have gone to a city owned asset and the city says "no thanks".

They can laugh, I'm far more concerned about opinions like this:

When I look at Hamilton and I think: Are the land use controls there? I'm not sure. Are the, is the economic development as strong of a case in Hamilton as it is in Waterloo? I'm not sure. Is the population growth there? I'm not sure. - Jeff Casello (on The Agenda with Steve Paikin) http://raisethehammer.org/article/1233/

When asking for money, it's important to demonstrate that the money in question is not going to be squandered. The "give us money - we'll build anything, anywhere, for the sake of construction" approach does not speak well of us. Instead we should focus on a few key requests (such as LRT, or fighting downloading) and take other opportunities, like Aerotropolis and the Stadium to say "no, but thank you". It may cost city coffers in the short run, but in the longer run we'll be in a far better position to ask when we need it.

It's also worth noting that we're not the City of Hamilton, we're taxpayers. I have no interest in squandering my tax dollars, no matter which levels of government it filtered through on the way. Federal tax dollars are not "free money".

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