Ottawa: Prime minister Mark Carney will visit his hometown of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories today. This visit is part of Carney’s travels through the Northwestern region.
Carney spent his early childhood in Fort Smith before his family moved to Edmonton. Before departing Fort Smith, he is scheduled to talk to locals in Fort Smith about affordability and food insecurity, and discuss wildfires with community leaders, before heading to Inuvik in the territory’s northwest corner.
He is set to co-host the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee on Thursday with Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, a national organization representing Inuit. It will be Carney’s second meeting with Indigenous groups on Ottawa’s major projects bill. The legislation would give Ottawa the ability to fast-track projects deemed to be in the national interest by sidestepping some review requirements.
