Friday, March 12, 2010
HRM's absurd obsession with secrecy
City refuses to release four-pad arena management contract
Posted by Tim Bousquet on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM
This is beyond absurd. We have a $50 million facility going up, which will no doubt cost taxpayers millions more each year in operational expenses, but the actual amount is a state secret.
Secrecy breeds distrust, and in this case, the taxpayers should have a boatload of distrust. I'll say it out loud: there's potential for out-right bribery on a project of this scale.
Beyond that, taxpayers should be immensely concerned about Nustadia, because the company has famously botched a similar contract with the city of Guelph, Ontario. The HRM-Nustadia should be open to the widest possible public review.
That's not possible when the entire contract is secret.
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