Compared to other major projects granted "national importance" status by Mark Carney’s Liberal government, the proposed expansion of the Port of Churchill is still a very fuzzy idea.

It’s relatively easy to wrap your brain around what it means to expand a liquefied natural gas terminal in Kitimat, B.C. or build a new copper mine at McIlvenna Bay, Sask., to name two major projects already in the works .

Manitoba’s megaproject involves five components, most of which remain entirely conceptual at this point and can not be defined before a series of economic, engineering and environmental questions are answered.

According to Premier Wab Kinew’s office, the project involves a port expansion of some sort, an upgraded Hudson Bay Railway, an all-weather road to Churchill and perhaps other n

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