Photo: Quebec hosts conference on northern development

Quebec premier Philippe Couillard, at podium, welcomes participants to an international symposium on northern development Feb. 25 in Quebec City, flanked by, from left, Robert Sauvé, secretary general of the province’s Plan Nord, Dagfinn Høybråten of the Nordic council of ministers and Denis Brière, rector of Laval university. The three-day conference drew representatives from northern nations, academics, Indigenous groups and business leaders to discuss sustainable development in the North. (PHOTO COURTESY OF NATURAL RESOURCES QUEBEC)