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  • 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!

       

HERE ARE SOME OF THE BOLD IDEAS WE'VE HEARD FROM YOU

    
  • 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