{"id":633489,"date":"2026-04-28T05:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633489\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:49:11","slug":"metro-vancouver-scores-federal-grant-for-fifa-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633489\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Vancouver scores federal grant for FIFA promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Vancouver Convention Centre, during the 2024 Grey Cup festival (Mackin)<\/p>\n

Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) approved a $180,800 grant to Invest Vancouver in February. Just before the end of the fiscal year in March, Pacifica added $307,000, for a total $487,800.<\/p>\n

The minister responsible is Gregor Robertson (Liberal-Vancouver Fraserview-South Burnaby).<\/p>\n

PacifiCan expects \u201chigh value-visitors and business executives\u201d to attend the seven World Cup matches in Vancouver between June 13 and July 7.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLocal business communities and associations will consolidate efforts to profile the region\u2019s industrial capabilities, talent and prospects for trade and investment,\u201d said the document.<\/p>\n

B.C. Business House will feature themed days to promote tourism (June 12), energy (June 17), life sciences (June 19), mining (June 23), technology (June 25), agriculture and food (June 30) and trade and logistics infrastructure (July 6).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Invest Vancouver\u2019s Jacquie Griffiths (LinkedIn)<\/p>\n

Under the grants to Invest Vancouver, hospitality costs \u2014 such as food and beverage \u2014 and event tickets are ineligible expenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cProject activities and the stewardship of PacifiCan funding would be closely monitored,\u201d said the documents.<\/p>\n

Invest Vancouver president Jacquie Griffiths did not respond to an interview request, but Metro Vancouver spokesperson Greg Valou said Invest Vancouver is not accessing tickets to the World Cup.<\/p>\n

How much is the provincial government spending on B.C. Business House and tickets to the B.C. Place Stadium matches?<\/p>\n

The NDP government did not respond by theBreaker.news deadline.<\/p>\n

Such an economic development program was not included in the most-recent spending update, published last June.<\/p>\n

The province contemplated $171 million to $181 million for B.C. Place operational and capital costs and $46 million to $98 million for \u201ccoordination of provincial essential services required to support the city and supporting First Nations\u2019 capacity and participation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The overall gross cost estimate for hosting FIFA World Cup was up to $624 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Convention Centre, during the 2024 Grey Cup festival (Mackin) Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) approved a $180,800…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-633489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}