OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will announce its next batch of nation-building projects on Thursday in Prince Rupert, B.C.

The port city is where Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is pushing to build a new million-barrel-a-day bitumen pipeline.

The proposal has received pushback from B.C.’s government and coastal First Nations and serves as a potential test for the Ottawa-Alberta relationship under Carney’s government.

Carney announced that Thursday would be the date for the second batch of projects to be named while speaking at a budget-related announcement in New Brunswick, where he teased that some of that province’s desired projects would be included in the upcoming announcement.

He had said that the second list of projects would be announced before Nov. 16,

See Full Page