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• the funding options should have part of phase one....this council can't decide unless they are handed a blank cheque

• more emphasis should be placed on economic spinoff activity....spinoffs are not a handout but need to be earned by having vision and investing in infrastructure

• the Watts school of thought is old hat. A stadium is a long overdue piece of infrastructure and should have been built in 1983 or at least funds should have been raised since then. No it doesn't make money so why not close the museums, parks, libraries, commons, skate parks, and rec centres.

• I would like to hear the rationale of how Halifax can't have a stadium when it is likely the only municipality of its size in North American without one

• there seems to be no thought given to the endless stream of negative publicity and can't do attitude that fosters here

• there seems to be no thought given to the possibilities of events like the 2015 FIFA World Cup could bring to the region