The provincial and federal governments are committing $60 million to enhance the railway to northern Manitoba and Canada’s only rail-accessible deepwater port on Arctic waters.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and federal Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal will be in Churchill to make the announcement on Friday morning.
The two levels of government will each contribute $30 million to improve the Hudson Bay Railway, which is the northern Manitoba community’s only land link to the south, and begin the redevelopment of the Port of Churchill, a government source confirmed. CBC is not naming the person because they were not authorized to speak on the matter.
The money will be
