Industry minister visits Yellowknife to tout $500 billion in federal spending to revive industrial capacity - Yellowknifer

Industry minister visits Yellowknife to tout $500 billion in federal spending to revive industrial capacity - Yellowknifer

Industry Minister Melanie Joly came to Yellowknife on May 19 to announce the federal government’s new defence industry strategy as Ottawa plans to spend $500 billion nationwide to revive its industrial capacity over the next decade. She said the Second World War motivated a lot of investments in Canada’s North, particularly in the NWT, but acknowledged that since the end of the Cold War, the rate of large-scale Northern infrastructure investment…