There are new questions about the future of the long-sought Mackenzie Valley Highway project in the N.W.T., after the territory's MP suggested that it may not be the best fit for Ottawa's new Major Projects Office.

“As it is a highway in just one jurisdiction — it's not the Major Projects Office," said MP Rebecca Alty, who is also minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, at a news conference in Yellowknife last Friday. "What's really needed for Mackenzie Valley Highway is the financing.”

By contrast, she said, the territory’s proposed Arctic economic and security corridor, which the prime minister has identified as a priority, comprises a deep-sea port and a highway between two territories and would require the involvement of many more parties. Here, said Alty, “the Major Projects Office

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