- When Mark Chipman and True North decided to build the MTS Centre it was considered a BOLD idea!
- When Izzy Asper decided the Human Rights Museum should be built in Winnipeg it was a BOLD idea!
- The $585-million James A Richardson International Airport is a BOLD idea!
- The $200-million redevelopment of Assiniboine Park and the new Polar Bear Exhibit is a BOLD idea!
THE 2011 BUSINESS SUMMIT - MAY 25, 2011, CANAD INNS POLO PARK
Chamber Chair Judy Murphy Chris Lorenc (MHCA) - Partner
David Anderson (BDO) - Sponsor Martin Thibodeau (RBC) - Sponsor
Doug Harvey - Keynote speaker Tom Carson - Canada West Foundation
PANELS
New Revenue Models Global Transportation Centre
Taking The World by Storm Hotbed for Entrepreneurship
Technology and Innovation Manufacturing
HERE ARE SOME OF THE BOLD IDEAS WE HEARD
- Do away with personal income tax
- Move the current rail lines outside city limits
- Establish virtual Smartparks that focus on small business ideas
- Create zones around our universities and hospitals where start-ups can get a tax holiday or credit
- Introduce "Crocus 2," a fund that gives businesses access to much needed capital
- Look at a shared-risk model for capital investment
- Make entrepreneurship compulsory in schools
- Use social media and take our branding strategy for Manitoba viral
- Brand Winnipeg as the "Prairie Geneva"
- Launch a branding campaign - "Where is Winnipeg?"
- Make Winnipeg the greenest city in the world
- Develop a Manitoba renewable energy strategy and scorecard
- Develop a streamlined Aboriginal provincial career path program
- Focus on commercialization, so innovation will follow
- Build a theme park to replace the old football stadium
- Take an aggressive approach to attracting head offices
- Invite the world to Manitoba
- Harmonize the PST and GST
- End the payroll tax
- Join the New West Partnership
- Introduce a time-limited infrastructure tax of one per cent
- Create a Manitoba BOLD beer