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Notwithstanding Tara T’s deep misgivings about Micheal Cera, this movie is going to be awesome.

I just posted this follow up on a local message board.

Again this is not mainstream vs indie, or Beatles vs Arcade Fire, or whatever.

The issue is this:

Lets say I accept the Economic Impact argument. Lets say I accept that Paul Macca brought $8 million to Halifax.

I have a document using generally accepted practices that says that HPX bring $2 million to Halifax.

Using that logic, saying yes, this is the investment required to make these events work, based on the money spent and loaned on Paul, then HRM should give $37.5K to HPX, the Province should give $75K to HPX, loan a further $75K that only gets paid back if our sales are really high, and be prepared to pay deposits of up to say $850,000 dollars.
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