If Alberta is going to do this you need to go big, or why bother. "tossing your hat in the ring" basically is useless, unless you're a politician who wants to say you're making an effort without really trying.
There needs to be a municipal/provincial team that goes all-in, with land, developer quotes, letters from existing big corporations about how cheap and wonderful it is here (Westjet and CP Rail would probably both benefit, and should be willing to sing our praises big time). Plus the province would need to kick in an NDP sized bucket of money.
I'm not big on government kickbacks to private industry, but this would diversify our economy in one fell swoop, and the spinoffs would likely be a real thing simply from the increased international reputation.
In many ways, getting Amazon's HQ2 would probably do more for our international reputation than having the olympics again.
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