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Originally Posted by borkborkbork
A convention centre? Do they really want to get into that death-spiral, money-pit business?
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Originally Posted by cllew
Maybe they are hoping to pick up a lot of native indigenous organization meetings that held at other venues in Winnipeg and elsewhere.
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Cliff basically nails it there.
I know on the union side of things when you are booking events unless there is no other choice you need to be in a union operated facility.
I would imagine that the members of the First Nations Development group will all be requiring their Winnipeg based meetings on held on treaty land. They will likely also be pushing for the the larger organizations to pass motions that when possible meetings are held on treaty land (aka they are the first choice).
It is a pretty smart angle to play to take away business from other places and keep the revenue inside the indigenous economy.