Manitoba Premier Brain Pallister has announced the launch of an eight million dollar Restart Manitoba Event Attraction Strategy.  The event strategy aims to maximize the potential of Winnipeg and rural destinations to host large scale meetings and events.  Pallister committed 2.5 million dollars from that fund should Winnipeg be selected as the CFL hub city this fall. He noted they will be welcoming CFL teams along with staff, League officials and media to the capital city for an extended period of time and they’ll be staying at our hotels, dining from our restaurants and contracting local businesses for transportation and other means all creating jobs.  He says direct return on their 2.5 million involvement will be almost double that and that’s just to the coffers in the province but the real return will be in economic impact at over 45 million estimated dollars in total business sales and that’s a positive impact on over 600 jobs in the province.

Pallister noted the CFL teams and anyone associated with the hub city will be expected to follow all protocols as reviewed by Public Health at all times.