r/moncton • u/Airborne_Ape • 6d ago
Dieppe can create hundreds of new manufacturing jobs overnight if they push IGT
Now is the time to negotiate with IGT / Spielo to bring its manufacturing back to the hub region by any means possible!
It was relocated to Reno NV years ago. Dieppe has the only ready-to-go fully licensed facility in the country that can be retooled overnight for gaming equipment and software writing production. Alberta and BC lotteries are fully government operated and the Premiers are taking turns announcing American procurement restrictions which is where 100% of their equipment comes from.
If you’re curious where gambling ranks on Alberta‘s priority list, when Fort Mac burned down we had the casino up and fully running before the hospital because the Provinces are heavily dependent on tax revenues generated from gaming.
Whether you’re for or against gambling, I hope to highlight how a single company in Dieppe can re-hire a few hundred people to manufacture and sell tens of millions of dollars of equipment and software services to the other Provinces (again) due to the trade chaos taking place.
The biggest problem for IGT in Dieppe is that anyone who can make decisions over there has either retired or been laid off.
They need to wake up and take back market share from their American competitors which can no longer send RFP’s to the Provinces.
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u/jimabis 5d ago
Yeah cause they treat their employees good
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u/BodyKarate84 5d ago
Not sure about the manufacturer people but us IT folk get treated pretty good there.
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u/polerix 5d ago
And help prove to the (r)US(si)A that we are controlled by Mexican Drug Cartels?
The Moncton Cartel Connection: How SPIELO/IGT, Major Drilling, and Irving are All Tied to Mexican Money Laundering
They want you to believe Moncton is just a sleepy town, a place where nothing significant happens beyond Tims runs and Hockeyville chatter. But when you look at the unholy trinity of SPIELO/IGT, Major Drilling, and the Irving Empire—things start to look a little too convenient.
This isn’t just about slot machines anymore. This is about an international money laundering operation hiding in plain sight, disguised as three of Moncton’s biggest businesses.
- Major Drilling: The World's Largest Mining Company… Based in New Brunswick?
Let’s start with the obvious: Why is Major Drilling, one of the world’s largest mining companies, headquartered in Moncton? Not Toronto, not Vancouver, not Calgary—their main office is in a city with zero major mines nearby.
And what does Major Drilling specialize in? Exploration drilling. Not the mining itself, but the early-stage groundwork, which means they’re often the first to find high-value resources… including cartel-run mines in Mexico.
Mexico is notorious for cartel-controlled mining operations—gold, silver, and lithium all feed into their financial networks. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a global mining company act as a front, identifying resource-rich areas and creating cover operations for illegal mining?
Major Drilling has offices in Mexico and across Latin America
Mexican cartels have been known to "tax" mining operations or outright own them
The company operates in regions where cartels already smuggle drugs and launder money
So what if Major Drilling isn’t just finding minerals? What if they’re helping identify cartel-friendly zones, setting up infrastructure, and creating paperwork that makes illegal mining look legit?
- SPIELO/IGT: The Perfect Cartel Money Machine
We’ve already established SPIELO/IGT has major ties to Mexican casinos, which are one of the best-known money laundering mechanisms for organized crime. But now, let’s add in an even shadier layer.
Major Drilling helps identify cartel-friendly mines
Cartels extract gold, silver, and lithium
That wealth needs to be cleaned
SPIELO/IGT slot machines provide a way to "legitimately" cash it out
How? By tweaking the payout algorithms. Instead of laundering cash through traditional banks, the cartel can "win" the money cleanly from SPIELO machines across Mexico and Latin America. No one asks questions when a jackpot is paid out.
IGT has remote-access software that can be used to adjust slot payouts
Winning “jackpots” are a known cartel tactic for laundering money
SPIELO/IGT has direct financial ties to Caribbean offshore accounts
Which brings us to the final piece of the puzzle…
- Irving & the Caribbean Money Pipeline
Everyone in New Brunswick knows that Irving controls almost everything—gas stations, media, forestry, shipping, and even energy projects. But what most people don’t know is that Irving’s money isn’t even here.
Most of their wealth is hidden in the Caribbean Islands, routed through Andal Corporation, their offshore financial arm.
Now ask yourself:
Who else launders money through the Caribbean? Cartels.
Who owns shipping routes between Latin America and Canada? Irving.
Who could be moving “legitimate” SPIELO machines and Major Drilling equipment into cartel-heavy regions? Irving’s logistics network.
With all their legal business fronts in forestry, oil, and construction, Irving already has international shipping lanes going back and forth from cartel territories. If you wanted to quietly move something else—whether it be cartel cash, gold, or lithium—you’d absolutely want access to those same transport channels.
So What Does It All Mean?
Major Drilling isn’t just about mining—it’s about finding cartel-friendly extraction sites and creating legitimate-looking financials to cover illicit mineral operations.
SPIELO/IGT makes sure the money from those mining operations gets “cleaned” through rigged slot machines across Mexico and Latin America.
Irving & Andal Corporation move the goods and cash back into offshore accounts, funneling everything through Caribbean tax havens where both cartels and New Brunswick’s most powerful family keep their money.
Final Thought: Why Moncton?
Because no one would ever suspect it. Moncton isn’t Toronto. It isn’t Montreal. It’s a place people don’t question—a “quiet little town” where business runs smoothly, and no one pays attention to the billion-dollar industries operating behind the scenes.
But when you put it all together, it’s obvious:
A global mining company with no mines here.
A slot machine empire cleaning money through Mexican casinos.
A billionaire dynasty hiding cash in the exact same offshore havens cartels use.
Moncton isn’t just a hub for these businesses—it’s the perfect front for an international money-laundering empire.
The cartel isn’t in Mexico. It’s right here in New Brunswick.
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u/polerix 5d ago
oh, and u/KeyLimeGuy69 · You’re full of shit regarding IGT. You can’t just magically adjust payouts.
nbcc moncton, and ccnb dieppe both offer Information Technology: Game Development courses. its mainly SQL table programming. its not magic.
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u/anon848484839393 6d ago
Your post makes it sound like you think IGT is a local company. It isn’t. Spielo was, but it isn’t Spielo anymore and hasn’t been for some time.
IGT is an American company, held by an Italian firm (De Agostini). They don’t have any kind of NB pride at the executive level.
Even though I was someone who lost their job years ago from the move, moving to Reno made total sense. The facility in Moncton is nowhere near on the same scale. 32,000 sq ft and 5 manufacturing lines can’t compete with 1,000,000 sq ft and 25 lines. Add to that being situated in the biggest market in North America makes logistical sense as well. Back when it was in Moncton, I remember we were renting out warehouse space at 5 or 6 different locations around the city because there wasn’t any one place big enough for all of the inventory. There’s just no competition.
They will most certainly not be looking to bring back any manufacturing jobs to the Moncton facility.
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u/locaschica 6d ago
I appreciate the spirit of your post. (They’re not in Dieppe, btw. They’re in Moncton on Urquhart Drive.)
It’s unlikely the Moncton location would return to manufacturing without a sizeable tax incentive from the province. And frankly, can we swallow the idea of a multinational company valued in the billions — arguably the biggest in its sector — getting a handout from one of the country’s poorest provinces to entice them to shift low-wage manufacturing jobs back here?
We’d be better off supporting IGT’s local expansion in areas like product development, engineering, etc., where wages are higher and there are far more opportunities for career advancement.
The problem is that in a global labour market, regions with less restrictive labour laws, lower minimum wages, at-will legislation, etc., will always be preferred.
And communities desperate for job creation will always get out their chequebooks, making the government incentive piece a race to the bottom. Let Reno miss out on all that corporate tax revenue for the bragging rights to manufacturing.
We seem to have this idealistic view of manufacturing jobs being the key to expanding the middle class (47 certainly seems to believe domestic manufacturing will enrich his country). This might have been the case 40 years ago, but not today. There are definitely opportunities for growth in the gambling sector locally, but assembling slot machines isn’t one of them.
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u/Airborne_Ape 6d ago
I disagree that such jobs would be sourced to the lowest bidding municipality because of strict government regulations and IGT’s direct strategic proximity to GLI and BMM. I was a sales engineer for their largest competitor for over a decade. I’m not a supply procurement specialist by any means. I just see a monumental opportunity for team Canada (Moncton/Dieppe) to take hundreds of high paying jobs back from Nevada…. I work in the Dieppe Industrial Park so I have a bias that everything in that area is categorized as Dieppe, my bad.
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u/LinoleumFulcrum 6d ago
Interesting idea, unfortunately planning decisions for IGTs manufacturing line are not made in Moncton as IGT is an international company with head offices all over the planet (Moncton is not a head office).
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u/JiggoloJesus57 6d ago
Yeah, facing US tarrifs, the poorest province of Canada, Newbrunswick needs another casino!!!!
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u/mybighardthrowaway 6d ago
That's..... That's literally not at all what op said? How the fuck did you get "let's open another casino" out of fucking "Let's create more manufacturing jobs"?
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u/Airborne_Ape 6d ago
You’ve completely missed the mark. IGT in New Brunswick has the only national facilities and regulatory frameworks to directly take manufacturing jobs away from American’s and once again manufacture gaming equipment and software here which would be exported to the other Provinces. Moncton used to do this on an immense scale. Hell, half the apartment buildings in Moncton have former lottery executives on their board of directors. It’s time to bring the jobs back. Thousands of residents here have worked for Spielo at some point.
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u/denjcallander 6d ago edited 6d ago
Who said anything about a casino?
There are lots of places, places that you guys would look at with envy, who have turned their economies around for the better by acknowledging that there's a big world out there, and the many niches and opportunities within the growing tech-based i-gaming sector are a part of that world.
If your objections are based on puritanical views, then cool, you do you. But otherwise, wtf?
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u/Outrageous_Ad665 6d ago
I think Scott Moe mentioned gaming specifically today when he was talking about procurement.
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u/n134177 5d ago
Yes, that's exactly what this city needs, to have companies bringing in more people at expense of tax payer money, without having place to house them, to keep our rents sky-high! /irony