One of the federal government's proposed nation-building projects — the expansion of the Port of Churchill and the rail line that serves the remote northern community — will require a lot of work, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.

"We'll move forward in steps," Carney said at the start of a 45-minute meeting with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in Kinew's office.

"It's a very big project, very ambitious, and a lot of work to do, starting now," he said in French.

Manitoba has long touted Churchill, a town of 900 people on the shore of Hudson Bay, as a port with huge potential to ship goods via the Arctic Ocean to Europe and elsewhere. The project recently made a list of initiatives being considered as "transformative" by the federal government although it was not among five projects hig

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