Kevin Taft (Alberta Liberals) is talking about pulling $800M from the Sustainability Fund (for disasters et al.) to help build the ring road.  Hey, I want the Calgary ring road, too.  That doesn’t mean I’d go out of my way to broker a bad deal to get it.

Let’s look at the South-West corner of it.  This is a road that is going to connect a huge portion of Calgary to Sarcee Trail.  Um… and that road will cruise you right by the Grey Eagle Casino… owned by the Tsuu Tina nation.  How much is that road worth to the Tsuu Tina?  Here’s a hint: MILLIONS!

As it is now, lots of gamblers are happy to keep driving to Silver Dollar, Stampede, Cash, Elbow River, or Deerfoot.  They’re all very accessibly from Deerfoot Tr. and Blackfoot.  To be honest, GE is tough to get to unless you’re coming down Sarcee Tr.

Yeah… a major roadway directly to the front door of my already-advantaged money printing business would be worth a couple hundred million to me.  We may as well give it away to the Tsuu Tina Nation… and toss in a couple hundred million as well.