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BRYDEN GETS REGIONAL TAX RELIEF, BUT WHAT ABOUT FEDERAL AID?

          Ottawa Regional Chair Robert Chiarelli yesterday
     announced a budget proposal that would "slash property
     taxes" at the Corel Centre from C$4.6M to C$700,000 "in
     return for a five-year promise" from the Senators to stay in
     the city, according to Kathleen Harris of the OTTAWA SUN. 
     The tax "reduction would work by creating" a new tax class
     called the "commercial professional sports facility"
     category.  Chiarelli said that he "expects an announcement"
     from the federal government on a tax relief proposal "by the
     end of this week" (OTTAWA SUN, 11/30).  Chiarelli said that
     he asked Senators Chair Rod Bryden to "delay the decision"
     about putting his team up for sale while Federal Industry
     Minister John Manley and the Prime Minister's office work
     "to come to a tax solution" (OTTAWA CITIZEN, 11/30). 
     Meanwhile, Boston-based Game Plan Partner Randy Vataha said
     that some U.S. investors are interested "in joining" Bryden
     to keep the team in Ottawa if it receives some tax relief. 
     He said that prospective investors are "prepared to visit"
     Ottawa to "examine more closely the operation" of the Corel
     Centre (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 11/30).

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