On a gravel road by the side of the Trans-Canada Highway, New Brunswick's natural resources minister, John Herron, gazes down a long clearing cut through the forest.

He sees poetry — national poetry, that is.

Herron hopes one of New Brunswick's proposed "projects of national interest" will connect to an existing natural gas pipeline running under that clearing.

"This is a nation-building project that checks every box," Herron says.

The plan is to extend a gas line that now ends in Quebec City into New Brunswick to link with the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline beneath the minister's feet.

New Brunswick's Minister of Natural Resources John Herron says his province's nation-building proposal to extend a pipeline from Quebec City into New Brunswick means Canada can ease its dependence on

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