Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi and MP Randy Boissonnault spent the morning with workers at the Trans Mountain Edmonton Terminal.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will mean less oil on rail cars, making room for agricultural products, a University of Saskatchewan professor said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday afternoon that the federal cabinet has approved the expansion of the existing pipeline.

Both premiers said they are confident the federal government will approve the stalled construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by the June 18 deadline.

Jason Kenney will meet face-to-face today with the political foe he attacked relentlessly in his successful bid to become Alberta's premier: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“It’s probably our number one priority as a government at the moment," said Transport Minister Marc Garneau.

Construction on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project is probably unlikely to begin any time soon.

The Northern Gateway pipeline was supposed to connect Alberta's oilpatch to a port in Kitimat, B.C., but the plan came apart when the federal Liberals banned tanker traffic from British Columbia's northern coast.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau said recent calls for the government to invest in moving oil by train as a stop-gap will not be an easy answer to the problem.

Here is how the Conservative leader described his plan to get the pipeline built in a press conference on Monday.