Vanier Cup 2015 - where will it be?

Quebec or Ottawa to get next Cup

Ottawa Sun
By: Tim Baines

MONTREAL -- It looks like next year's Vanier Cup will be in either Quebec City or Ottawa.

Both OSEG, which owns the Ottawa RedBlacks, and the University of Laval have submitted bids to host the event, with a decision expected by mid-December.

"The concept from Ottawa is way bigger than football," said CIS CEO Pierre Lafontaine.

"We could host men's and women's hockey, basketball, volleyball, soccer. The whole discussion with them is way more than football. It's in the next 10 years, what can we do?"

For this year's Vanier Cup, McMaster had to pay its own bills -- getting here, hotel and food. There was no CIS compensation.

"I'm going to say it like this, winning is expensive," said Lafontaine, who added it's expected that funding to teams could be added by 2016