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"There would be a full-fledged citizens’ revolt involving torches and pitchforks if the city fathers (and mothers) sat on their hands and allowed the team to go elsewhere."

It's pretty astonishing (and delicious at the same time) how the most far right province in Canada with the most far right electorate in Canada, a province that is in difference to the rest of Canada in support of Trump in the US of A.......;

Expects the government to somehow produce a BILLION dollars out of a hat as if nothing happened.

The Cons could never count (we always knew that, so why are we surprised at this time?) The "best" part of this proposition? The same Alberta that takes pride in bashing Quebec is now asking for government handouts in Calgary while the Montreal Canadiens built their arena / the Bell Center with 0 (ZERO) government aid.

Delicious indeed....................isn't it? (???!!!!) About as delicious as the 1.8 billion dollar (per YEAR) subsidy for the Alberta oil sands 
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