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  • Oct/17/23 2:00:00 p.m.

Senator Tannas: Yes. Certainly for the host reserves, this would be a large revenue generator. Chief Roy Whitney of the Tsuut’ina estimates that over the history of the Grey Eagle casino, that community has given the province of Alberta a half of a billion dollars that would otherwise have gone into their community for that kind of infrastructure. It would help with all the programs we are busy giving them and downloading to them.

There’s no question — we’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars a year that would go into those communities for economic activities that are on their reserve where they have invested the capital to make it happen.

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