By TJ DhirAll three Premiers stress the need for infrastructure upgradesWith Canada’s premiers set to meet with the Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa this week, the three territorial premiers are laying out their priorities for the meeting. In the days leading up to the premiers’ meeting with Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump’s overt desire to take control of the Danish territory of Greenland grabbed international attention. The three territorial premiers stressed the role that their jurisdictions, and people, play in that conversation. “When you look at a map and you see infrastructure there, you see highways and communities, that’s sovereignty,” he said. “That competition will be fierce but friendly.”Improved infrastructure needed ‘everywhere you look in every community’Two territorial premiers will be using the opportunity to advocate for investment in improved infrastructure in their jurisdictions.

Source: CBC News January 26, 2026 18:31 UTC