Thomas Drance

I believe they're asking city council.

Asking city council.

Okay.

So asking to a proportion.

Yeah.

300 million.

And the proposal itself indicates that there will be additional funding provided by the

the provincial government and some unspecified amounts as well by the Vancouver Canucks.

So this is sort of official confirmation in some ways from the parks board that at the very least there have been discussions matching some of what's been reported by Irfan Ghaffar and Rick Dollywall among others.

In that council meeting, there was discussions.

Now, from what I can gather, having read both the reporting and the original sort of source reporting, it doesn't seem like there's much that we can read into from the plans as they exist.

But there was certainly someone who spoke about the idea that if there's only one sheet, that's not going to be good enough.

Right.

And I think that matters a ton, because as it stands right now, we are, what, 22 years into the Aquilini era of Vancouver Canucks hockey, and at no point has the city of Vancouver added additional ice surface capacity for the sport of hockey.

In contrast with not just the practice facilities that other teams have constructed, but also their...

support of junior hockey locally, you know, to the point where like the Dallas Stars, the Junior Stars, the Junior Panthers, the Junior Ducks, right, are like junior hockey is like wholly owned and operated by affiliated groups or the teams themselves with massive benefits, massive returns in terms of the development of local talent.

You know, Vancouver is a hockey hotbed.

This city is churning out hockey talent and the Vancouver Canucks don't have their fingerprint on that at all.

The Vancouver Canucks just play high level hockey here.

I wanted to bring both of these things up because, again, we're not going to do the pre-mad thing.