A guide to the Arctic Economic & Security Corridor’s future – Cabin Radio

November 26, 2025

The Arctic Economic and Security Corridor – a road connecting a proposed deepwater port on Nunavut’s coast to the NWT and the south – is in the spotlight like never before.

In 2018, Ottawa declined to help fund the NWT half of this massive project. In 2020, the Yellowknives Dene First Nation temporarily withdrew its support.

Now, YKDFN and the Tłı̨chǫ Government have signed an agreement to advance the project together, Mark Carney’s Major Projects Office has placed it on a second-tier list of ideas that show promise, and suddenly this appears the most likely of the NWT government’s three-project wish list to advance any time soon.

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