Premier John Hogan and his provincial counterparts are in Saskatoon today for a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Hogan says the meeting is an opportunity for him to share Newfoundland and Labrador’s priorities with Carney, and to work with the other premiers—especially those in Atlantic Canada and Quebec.
Hogan states the focus of the meetings will be around “nation-building projects” that have been a focus of Carney’s thus far.
He says they will be talking about what that means, what the projects will be, and what support there will be for the provinces to help develop those projects.
A meeting between government and the roundtable on tariffs and trade in January 2025 (VOCM News)
Ahead of the trip, Hogan says he and Finance Minister Siobhan Coady reconvened the roundtable on tariffs and trade.
He says the roundtable’s ideas about nation-building projects and how to build the economy really line up with what he and Coady have been talking about.
Meanwhile, PM Carney says Ottawa probably can’t undertake a thorough overhaul of how municipalities are funded in the near future, with the federal government now focused on major projects.
