British Columbia Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon said that the provincial government has been “approached by a local group that wants to buy” the Whitecaps. The potential B.C.-based bid for the MLS team comes after a formal offer made by a U.S. group to buy and relocate the team to Las Vegas. Kahlon said the group has been “organizing apparently for a few weeks to put a bid in for the Whitecaps.” He added that the group was “doing ‘due diligence’ and he understood that it would share more information soon about a bid that is ‘grounded in a plan’ to keep the team in Vancouver” (CP, 5/6).
Minister: B.C. group to bid for Whitecaps
