Steven MacKinnon
The Public Record
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July 17, 2026
The best possible set of proposed mitigations is in place when it comes to environmental protections.
— Steven MacKinnon
The authorization is a major step towards building a project that will help improve the community’s safety and quality of life.
We've put in place the most robust crime agenda in a generation, maybe in history.
The Liberal Party is the party of law and order.… The Conservatives voted against all of our bills and they've moved into this conspiracy theory rabbit hole.
These three projects reflect our determination to use every tool available to build the infrastructure Canada needs and to deliver major projects more efficiently.
The Grays Bay road and port project and the Mackenzie Valley highway project are nation-building initiatives.
By announcing what we're announcing today, we're signalling that the federal government intends to deploy the tools offered to it by the Building Canada Act.
This is a project for literally the common good. This is a project for people designed for people to help people, to help communities, to allow people to more freely live, work, play across this corridor.
Yes it is a longer route, but it does not add enough time such that it would dissuade people from … taking a short airplane ride, or getting in their car or using some other mode.





