Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the federal government could help the remote town of Churchill in part by taking over the community's port on Hudson Bay.
Pallister says the federal government runs many ports across the country and could run one more to help secure Churchill's future.
The subarctic town of 900 lost its only land connection to the outside world this spring when flooding damaged the rail line.
Both the rail line and port used to be federally owned, but were sold to Denver-based Omnitrax in 1997. Omnitrax says it cannot afford to repair the rail line
