This is the best you could Mayor Kelly??

Did Mayor Kelly and the rest of his City Hall crowd make the best deal on behalf of the HRM taxpayer for the new convention center? The simple answer is no they should not even be involved in it. The Convention centre was, as it seems to be in other provinces, the responsibility of the Province but seeing Premier Rodney Mac Donald is Hell bent on downloading even more financial burdens onto the HRM ratepayers we must look at the deal HRM council accepted and It seems to be the poorer one as far as the people who will pay for it, us, are concerned.

The Ramia family's business, Rank inc., beat out the Hardman group's bid for the new convention centre but, when you look behind the snappy one liners from City Hall's spin doctors, you have to ask yourself why in my opinion.


I raised this question on the editorial page of the Herald on Saturday and received an E Mail stating no we didn't get the betetr deal with some possible reasons. A bit of digging and some help from Tim Bosquet of the Coast Magazine seems to have quickly confirmed my informant’s suspicions. This deal will leave us with a $1,000,000 bill for the ratepayers to tear down the Cogswell Interchange. What other costs will it add? Only the Mayor Kelly lead council can tell and as usual they aren’t talking. See for yourself and decide for your self at http://tinyurl.com/r9dv6a then use the E Mail addresses at left to tell the Mayor and your councillor what you think about how they are squandering your money.