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Nanaimo voters reject events centre proposal in a landslide
NANAIMO — It wasn’t even close.
By a stunning margin, Nanaimo voters rejected the City’s proposal to spend $80 million of taxpayers’ money on an events centre.
Eighty per cent of the nearly 24,000 ballots cast in Saturday’s referendum opposed authorizing the borrowing, according to preliminary results.
“I didn’t suspect there would be a positive vote, however I’m surprised it’s this high,” mayor Bill McKay said. “They’re telling us not at this time, absolutely not.”