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The Northwest Territories government is pressing whoever forms government after Monday’s federal election to fund a billion-dollar transportation project through Canada’s North that can only happen with money from Ottawa.The Slave Geological Province Corridor is a proposed all-season road that would cover almost 190,000 square kilometres. The project would reach the boundary with Nunavut and run through an area that has a high potential for gold, base metals and diamond production, according to the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.