Speaking of Government money and a little closer to home than Canada…Dundee.
Dundee is a place that is falling over itself to keep game development there. Even after lots of studio closures, they throw money at start-ups to stay there. They have incubator programs to help graduates start up small companies and they help with of some of the costs (office space, stuff like that)
I dunno if it would be IGDA Ireland (that still around?) who would petition to get tax breaks for game developers to locate here.
Call it R&D tax breaks…whatever.