Dunleavey and Pillai Governor Dunleavy from Alaska and Premier Pillai from the Yukon just met.
"We want to be not just good neighbors, but we want to put our heads together to stave off and create things," Dunleavy said. He'd like to see the cooperation go further, including a railroad route along the Alaska Highway corridor.
"Imagine a transportation corridor that goes through Alaska, goes through Yukon, goes down to through B.C. and goes through Canada-a designated corridor that could have rail, could have pipelines, could have transmission lines where Alaska is no longer stranded, where the Yukon is no longer stranded in terms of energy systems," Dunleavy said. "I think it would bode well for surviving successive administrations and elected officials, but it would also bode well for investment. I think it would lower costs for energy, I think it would broaden the possibilities for interconnectivity worldwide. I think we have a real opportunity to demonstrate between our two sovereigns, and bring other sovereigns into a northern North America Free Trade Zone."