Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an agreement to build a railway to the mineral-rich Ring of Fire region

Danielle Smith’s office says she and Doug Ford will sign agreements on energy priorities, trade and interprovincial co-operation. The pair were together at a roundtable in Calgary on Sunday, with Ford tweeting that they discussed how to build new pipelines, as well as rail lines to export Canadian critical minerals and energy.

Premier Smith and Premier Ford pledge to strengthen their province’s economies by advancing oil and gas pipelines and exchanging critical minerals.