Akeeagok eager to hear Carney’s plan on major project approvals – Nunatsiaq News
Jun 2, 2025
First ministers meeting with prime minister in Saskatoon
As Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to speed up the way major nation-building projects are approved, Premier P.J. Akeeagok says Nunavut is eager to collaborate.
Akeeagok, along with his fellow premiers, is to meet with Carney in Saskatoon on Monday. It will be their first in-person gathering since King Charles outlined the Carney government’s agenda last Tuesday in the speech from the throne.
“Through the creation of a new Major Federal Project Office, the time needed to approve a project will be reduced from five years to two; all while upholding Canada’s world-leading environmental standards and its constitutional obligations to Indigenous Peoples,” Charles said in his speech.
