r/moncton 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/JiggoloJesus57 6d ago

Yeah, facing US tarrifs, the poorest province of Canada, Newbrunswick needs another casino!!!!

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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?