The numbers just don't add up

Richmond - The Editor, Excellent letter from Ken MacLennan regarding the Oval's financial statement with some very pertinent questions regarding the ACTUAL costs of operating our "Owe-Val."But Ken, don't expect any correct answers from our council on that one.Over the past years, council have never produced complete statements listing all the massive infusions of public money poured into this white elephant.Instead, we get statements purporting to show it is actually making a "profit."Last year, a city spokesperson stated publicly on TV that council knew that right from the start and all through the planning stages that the oval would have to be subsidized by the taxpayers but, naturally, did not make this public at that time.And so we will continue to get these phoney financial statements and periodically a highly colourful blurb of their beloved Oval from council praising their wisdom and far-sightedness in building this magnificent stadium for present-day generations and their descendents (all doomed to be subsidising it in perpetuum).And it poses the question - are there still members of council who still think that some of the public (i.e. the taxpayers) really believe them?Robert M. PaulRichmond