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Doug Ford says first ministers’ meeting was best in ten years
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford said provincial and territorial leaders met with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saskatoon on Monday for their best gathering in a decade.
- The meeting aimed to discuss nation-building resource and infrastructure projects amid tariff pressures, with some pipeline debates and hopes for federal fast-tracking, though no final list was released.
- Carney emphasized building certainty and ambition to attract investment, citing projects like the Grays Bay Road and Port and Ontario's Ring of Fire mining, while noting that nothing was finalized yet.
- B.C. Deputy Premier Niki Sharma highlighted focusing on shovel-ready projects with proponents, noting a $34 billion underused pipeline has spare capacity and that Smith's new pipeline proposal currently lacks a proponent.
- The premiers’ unified stance signals intent to push federal legislation aiming to limit project approval times to two years, potentially advancing Canada's energy sector amid renewed positive political tone.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó reported on Facebook on Tuesday evening that he had held the best meeting with a Western politician in the past ten years with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
Doug Ford says premiers meeting with Mark Carney was best first ministers meeting in a decade
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the premiers' meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney was the best first ministers meeting in 10 years. Ford says they are all leaving the meeting united and the work to choose projects to fast track will continue.
Ford calls first ministers' meeting the 'best in 10 years'
Prime Minister Mark Carney met with provincial and territorial premiers yesterday in Saskatoon to discuss possible major projects that the federal government could potentially fund or fast-track. CBC’s Mike Crawley breaks down the most significant things that came out of the meeting.
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