The Port of Churchill is one of the first major infrastructure projects Ottawa will support under Bill C-5.

New port facilities in Churchill, Man., plus an expansion of Montreal’s Contrecœur port terminal, are among the first major infrastructure projects Ottawa will support, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday.

Speaking in Berlin at a news conference with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Mr. Carney also announced an agreement with Germany to co-operate on critical minerals, including co-funding new projects. The agreement did not outline specific projects or timelines.

Mr. Carney campaigned on a Liberal platform that promised to support major new infrastructure projects as a way of countering the negative economic consequences of U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-tariff trade policie

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