Overview

• Federal and provincial leaders emerged from the Saskatoon meeting united on fast-tracking nation-building projects to strengthen Canada’s economy and reduce interprovincial trade barriers.
• Premiers pitched priority developments including critical minerals mining in Ontario’s Ring of Fire, bitumen pipelines to the West Coast and expanded port corridors without any shortlist being announced.
• Prime Minister Mark Carney said the upcoming “national interest” bill will impose a two-year approval timeline and replace Impact Assessment Act reviews for selected projects.
• The draft legislation will mandate meaningful consultation with Indigenous peoples before determining which infrastructure proposals advance.
• Officials will spend the summer refining the list of candidate projects and drafting the fast-track legislation for introduction in the House of Commons.