Comment 45096

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted August 07, 2010 at 17:04:04

I was in Vancouver a few of the years previous to the Olympics, and this is exactly how things worked there. Back-room dealing for millions or billions worth of developments, clearly in opposition to any kind of "rational democratic process".

Witness the financial shambles they're in now: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/compa...

All this nonsense about how "Hamilton isn't a good place to do business" makes me sick. If this is true, it's because our city has bowed at every opportunity to the business community, and those decisions have been massive mistakes. The destruction of our vibrant downtown by tenement towers, malls and parking lots? The half-billion dollar Red Hill/Linc expressway system? Sprawling suburban wastelands? Abandoned, toxic brownfields? Randle Reef?

If we don't start standing up for quality of life in this town we're never going to see much of it.

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