Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says oil could be among the commodities shipped through Hudson Bay if Canada proceeds with a new or expanded port along the province's coastline.

Kinew has asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to support a northern trade corridor that would involve a new all-season road, a hydro-electric transmission line to Nunavut and potentially a pipeline to Hudson Bay.

Kinew said Friday that oil is among the commodities that could be shipped through Arctic waters via Hudson Bay. The premier has in the past floated the idea of liquefied natural gas or hydrogen shipments.

"When we're talking about a pipe, what is the product that makes sense?" Kinew said during a scrum with reporters following a speech in Winnipeg's RBC Convention Centre.

"Are we going to be looking at liquefa

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