The Manitoba Heavy Construction Association has canceled this year’s EXPO North due to low registration.

The heavy duty conference has been running for two years, with Thompson being the host City both years.

Vice President and General Manager of Smook Contractors, Peter Paulic says the economic outlook in the country including the situation in Alberta, may have played a part in the lack of registrations:

"Maybe some of the construction companies and the people that are out there are looking at that and they’re hanging on to their dollars or whatever it is; but the reality of it is when you invest in your people, it’s good for them, and it’s good for the companies and then for the future. We’ll see if maybe this is just a hiccup right now and move forward in the future".

In the previous two years the conference drew over 150 people from Thompson and outlying communities.

Paulic says they will be working to make next year’s conference as successful as the first two years.