The release of these documents certainly helps in the polarized campaign where Mayor Nenshi has been battling with the Calgary Flames group over reaching a possible deal on a new arena.
Now according to city councilor Diane Colley-Uquhart, only Chima Nkemdirim (Nenshi’s Chief of Staff) negotiated thus would have had access to these documents.
If Chima Nkemdirim did indeed leak these confidential documents to the Globe and Mail, it is very serious business. This underscores yet again how terrible the Mayor’s antagonistic relationship with Calgary businesses is.
Ken King rightly was less than amused with the leak.
In the interview, Mr. King said it was “inappropriate” for someone to leak the document. “Somebody was playing fast and loose with their ethics and I think that’s a damn shame,” he said.
So how did the Globe just happen to get these documents just before a civic election?
Diane Colley-Urquhart feels that it should go to the integrity commissioner at the very least but that would only happen well past the election.
Perhaps this leak came from elsewhere. The damage is done though and the city looks even more inept and untrustworthy.
With Nenshi’s campaign on the rocks he has been showing increasing desperation as he even dropped the race card in hopes of gaining some sort of sympathy vote.
Has the Mayoral desperation now hit the point where his team will even leak confidential city documents in hopes of aiding his campaign?
We likely won’t be able to find out for sure until after the election but this adds yet another shadow to Nenshi’s already bleak looking campaign.
