Comment 55969

By Avenger (anonymous) | Posted January 12, 2011 at 11:38:47

Graeme's letter is articulate but offers no solution. At least this time Mr. Crawford isn't vexatiously appealing to the Integrity Commissioner as he did once before.

The IWS solution is a half baked idea but it's better than an Aldershot or Mississauga solution. Hamilton would never have lived it down. If they approve the proposal currently before them, by 2014 everyone will have forgotten the debate and only see a refurbished stadium with an invigorated team owned by someone other than Bob Young.

Here is the caution. The package is nicely wrapped in fancy tinsel only to get Hostco (sorry Toronto 2015) and Council support. Once the construction starts, you will see the cost over-runs multiply. That is the unfortunate part. What is a good news story for Brattina now will come back to bite him because of the cost over-runs. They will try to get Lloyd Ferguson to assume the construction controls and they will spin it positively, but it will be as much of a fib when they do as the city hall renovations which were supposedly on time and under budget. What we were not told is that there were 1600, yes count them, 1600 deficiencies to the city hall when staff moved back in....many are still now being dealt with.

I would be very cautious going forward.

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