Hans: "Not happening" meaning the Business Development Bank? Not really surprising if so, TDC does not really fit the criteria, plus the feds are not the main beneficiaries of any development, just a drop in the bucket to them compared to the billions they spend on auto manufacturing subsidies, R&D and other more central industries in the economy located in the more populated areas (and therefore with more federal votes) such as southern Ontario.

But significant economic benefit would accrue to NWT, to Yellowknife, and to the native populations in NWT in particular, and as I said up here in the frozen north we have few reservations about subsidizing or promoting corporate entities, beginning with the Canadian Pacific Railway which united Canada back in the 1800s and which received huge tracts of land and considerable support from the government.

But if they have other irons in the fire up there, so much the better. Ike