An Indigenous-led second port on Hudson Bay will help unite Canada

Currently, most of our products go to the easy market down south, but we have long been anxious to diversify our customer base.

Part of the Hudson Bay shoreline in Churchill, Man. Port Nelson is more accessible in the winter, and several port facilities could be built to handle all sorts of commodities, writes Dorothy Dobbie. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DOROTHY DOBBIE

July 9, 2025

For many years, federal governments of all stripes have turned a blind eye to the fact that the centre of Canada is landlocked except for Manitoba’s Hudson Bay shoreline. When governments do consider that we have tidewater access, the focus is on only one possibility: Chur...

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