Calls mount for the Arctic to make national-interest list with launch of Major Projects Office: there’s an ‘Achilles heel in the North’ 

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs' Heidi Cook says the Carney government backing Manitoba’s Port of Churchill as a national-interest project was a ‘surprise to a lot’ of First Nations in the area.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Major Projects Office, which will oversee national interest projects, launched on Aug. 29 and will be headed by former Trans Mountain Corporation CEO Dawn Farrell.

The Liberals' Major Projects Office is now up and running, and two Nunavut project proponents are eager to make the cut for the prime minister’s prized national-interest list, but one chief is raising concerns about minimal communication from the government as it eyes a po...

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