OTTAWA–Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled Tuesday that two port proposals could be among the first major projects approved under a contentious Liberal law, amid a European tour where he sought to bolster Canada’s economic and security influence abroad.

“Our government is in the process of unleashing half a trillion dollars of investment in energy infrastructure, port infrastructure, particularly intelligence infrastructure, as well, with AI, and a number of those investments, the first of which we will be formally announcing in the next two weeks, are with respect to new port infrastructure,” Carney said during a news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

He specifically cited two projects: a planned expansion of the Port of Montreal to the city of Contrecoeur, an

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