Premier Scott Moe didn’t speak a whole lot when he and some of his fellow provincial counterparts addressed the media in Washington, D.C. Saturday morning.

Premier Moe along with the premiers of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick are in the U.S. capital for a trade mission to strengthen trade relations and to promote the USMCA agreement.

Recently, a Financial Post article was published suggesting that the U.S is looking to its neighbours in Mexico and Canada to help them export coal from states such as Wyoming to Asia. That’s because U.S. coastal states including Oregon, Washington and California are blocking coal shipments due to their concerns about coal’s impact on climate change.

The article went on to say that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney met with U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette. Following the meeting Brouillette suggested that he believes there is a lot of interest with Canada possibly helping the U.S. ship coal overseas.

When asked by reporters in Washington Saturday if he would be interested in helping the U.S. ship coal to Asia, Kenney said his conversation with the U.S. Energy Secretary primarily dealt with energy infrastructure projects like Keystone XL.

Kenney did note that Alaskan officials are interested in the concept of an Alberta to Alaska railway.

Premier Moe commented on the topic saying that he and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney have advocating for sometime to expand transportation networks such as pipelines in order to further allow other products to get to market by freeing up rail lines.

Kenney also called out Democratic U.S. presidential hopefuls that would to stop the Keystone pipeline expansion.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford called out current Democratic politicians in Washington this week.

The Ontario premier called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s actions “disappointing” and “a shame” when she ripped up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Ford also said that the politics of Barry Sanders, a candidate in the Democratic race are “scary”.