06/12/2026
This week, BHP signed rail transportation agreements with both CN and CPKC to move potash from the Jansen mine to Westshore Terminals in Vancouver. I want to explain why that matters, because I think it gets lost in the business headlines.
Jansen is in my constituency. I've watched this mine get built, the crews, the equipment, the infrastructure going in. I know the families in Kelvington-Wadena whose livelihoods are tied to this project. When a deal like this gets signed, it lands differently for me.
What BHP has done is lock in the full supply chain from the ground in central Saskatchewan to a ship leaving Vancouver Harbour.
Those customers are everywhere. Farmers in Brazil. Growers in Southeast Asia. Operations across the U.S. The world's food production depends on fertilizer, fertilizer depends on potash, and a massive share of that potash is going to come from right here. Janet Drysdale at CN called Jansen "a generational investment in Saskatchewan." She's right.
But this deal also underscores something we need to be honest about: the infrastructure has to keep pace with the opportunity. Rail capacity, port throughput at Vancouver, the roads and utilities that serve mine sites and rural communities aren't nice-to-haves. They are the condition under which Saskatchewan can actually compete globally.
We have the resource. We have the demand. The question is whether the supply chain can handle the volume as projects like Jansen ramp up and Stage 2 comes into view.
That means continued investment. Not just from companies like BHP, CN, and CPKC, but from governments who understand that rural resource infrastructure is national economic infrastructure.
Every bottleneck between Kelvington-Wadena and a port terminal is money left on the table and a customer who looks elsewhere.
Jansen is 78% complete. First production is on track for 2027. Full capacity is roughly 8.5 million tonnes a year. The train deal gets the product to market. Now we need to make sure everything else along that corridor is built to match.
Saskatchewan is feeding the world. Let's make sure we can keep doing it.
https://www.bhp.com/news/media-centre/releases/2026/06/bhp-announces-rail-transportation-agreements-with-cn-and-cpkc
