Wab Kinew told The Globe and Mail that Prime Minister Mark Carney set the target in a meeting in Ottawa this week, after which they announced the latest federal-provincial agreement to cut duplication in environmental assessments of major projects. Exporting liquefied natural gas from the Port of Churchill would almost certainly mean building a new pipeline to get LNG to the port in the first place. (The Globe and Mail)

Talking point: Churchill is about 1,000 kilometres north of Winnipeg and has no road connections to the rest of the country. Ottawa and Manitoba have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward a Port of Churchill expansion, but thus far have focused on improvements to the railway that connects it to southern Canada. The port’s owner, Arctic Gateway Group, has been pitching it as a route for Europe-bound goods, though it’s currently frozen in for much of the year.