Carney to hold talks with Inuit leaders on major projects bill in N.W.T. next week
By Canadian Press on July 18, 2025.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Inuvik, N.W.T. on July 24 to continue talks with Indigenous groups on the government’s major projects bill.
Carney will co-host the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee with Natan Obed, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president.
The meeting will cover a range of issues according to the Prime Minister’s Office, including how the Building Canada Act can be implemented consistent with Inuit land claims agreements and in partnership with Inuit.
The Building Canada Act gives the government the ability to fast track projects that are deemed to be in the national interest by sidestepping some review requirements under a host of federal laws.
Carney hosted a meeting with hundreds of First Nations chiefs in Gatineau, Que. Thursday in the for the first of three meetings with Indigenous groups.
Some chiefs walked out of the meeting of the summit saying they saw an insufficient response to concerns they’d been raising for weeks, while others left the meeting “cautiously optimistic.”
Before travelling to Inuvik, the prime minister will also briefly visit Fort Smith, the town in the Northwest Territories where he was born and spent his early childhood.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 18, 2025.
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I wonder just where this people think money comes from? Do we just print more when we pay them their $31 billion from the federal government they receive in supports per year? Do we just print more when we need to pay them the over $40 billion for our past mistakes? Or the $25 billion paid to them?
Canada is in financial distress and we need to generate revenues from projects to pay the bills! We are facing a debt wall soon if we do not come up with more revenue! We are also facing sovereignty issues that could even result in the loss of our sovereign country and if that happens, they will not get the supports they have enjoyed, depending on whether it is the US or China! They can’t even agree on anything amongst themselves and that is what has impeded major projects, while many of their protests have shut down other major projects.
Canadians have all had to pick up the tab for this and First Nations have not had to feel the impacts of those losses but at some time they must!
It is time we started reducing the funding and supports paid to them instead of non-First Nations Canadians having to solely pick up the tab for those losses. You cannot have it both ways! You want to be included then when we suffer, you suffer!
Just one example of how projects have been impeded by our great First Nations people:
On May 1, 2024, the long-delayed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion officially begun operations after 12 years and C$34 billion in costs.
1,150 km (710 mi) Diameter 610 mm (24 in)
vs
Trans Alaska Pipeline in Alaska
Time: Three years, two months (April 29, 1974 to June 20, 1977) to complete pipeline, pump stations, roads and Terminal.
Cost: Approximately $8 billion for entire system, including Valdez Marine Terminal and pump stations, at conclusion of initial construction period in 1977.
1,288.0 km (800.3 mi) Diameter 1.22 m (48-inch)
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Although the costs cannot be included due to the difference of 50 years between projects, the terrains and length were similar!
The Trans Mountain pipeline was constantly delayed due to First Nations!
The bills have to get paid and they must also be impacted when revenues are low!