Canada is ready to receive leaders from the world’s largest economies for the annual G7 Summit that begins on Sunday, and bets could not be high.
The multiple commercial war of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has countries struggling to reduce its tariffs. Cessefires have not been able to stay in Gaza and Ukraine. The allies focus collectively on promoting their defenses to counteract China, Russia and other threat actors. And the emergence of artificial intelligence has opened opportunities and risks on multiple fronts.
For Prime Minister Mark Carney, he will mark his stage more high profile, but seeks to normalize relationships with Trump and reposition Canada as an important ally.
This is what you should expect in the course of the summit.
Avoid the adjustment of discord, with the treatment of us possible
The last time Canada organized the top of the G7 leader was in 2018, and quickly saw tensions.
Trump’s clashes with the then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other leaders on trade led the United States not to support the official statement of the G7, and France Minister of Foreign Affairs called the Summit the “G6 more one”.
A repetition of that show would be a “nightmare scenario” for both Canada and the Alliance, all Sens, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, in an email.
Since he returned to office this year, Trump has only doubled the actions that fed discord in that previous summit: imposing radical tariffs on the allies, reverse or reduce the action of climate change and the rope dialogue in Whase.
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The Summit will mark the first time Carney and Trump will be face to face from their White House meeting in May.
Pete Hoekstra, the United States ambassador to Canada, said on Wednesday that the two leaders see the meeting as a “turning point” in their direct negotiations towards a possible new agreement.
“Both will be in the same place, both will be in Canada, and there would be many questions if there is something that is announced,” he said in an event in Ottawa.
“Until it happens, it is still a possibility.”
Carney announced last week what he said were Canada’s priorities for discussions at the G7 summit, all of which are destined to “build stronger economies.”
The Prime Minister said that OTTAWA’s main priority will be the strengthening of world peace and security, which includes foreign interference and transnational crime, as well as the improvement of responses to forest fires.
Canada will focus on gaining economic growth by improving energy security, strengthening critical mineral supply chains and accelerating the use of artificial intelligence.
Finally, Canada will discuss the creation of jobs ensuring associations to open new markets and generate large infrastructure investments.
The G7 finance ministers and the governors of the Central Bank who met at Banff last month before the top of the leaders agreed to cooperation in the search for economic growth, ensuring the stability and certainty of prices, addressing financial crime and supporting Ukraine.
“Any communication that contains any substantive collective agreement on important issues to be a triumph would change, with a soft document as the most likely result,
David Perry, president of Canadian Global Affairs Institute, told that Trump’s influence will probably mean past issues in agreement, including shared initiatives on the environment and “equity, diversity and inclusion” – Wille.
However, he still believes that agreements can be achieved among allies on issues of shared importance that go beyond the tensions that Trump tariffs have fallen, participulate on energy security and artificial intelligence.
The PMO said that discussions will also include ensuring peace in Ukraine and other global conflicts, as well as “a prospective agenda that involves partners beyond G7”.
Other world leaders whose countries are not part of the G7, but attend the summit are the bosses of Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Australia, South Africa and Ukraine.
The assistance of Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum will mark the first time that US leaders will be together since Trump’s Trade Wrsed the Free Trade Agreement (Cusma) of Canada and Canada-Mexico who is at the review of Nexton.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zenskyy, said he will ensure that conversations at the summit and other high -level meetings next week do not conduct “hollow” agreements about war in his country.
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will also attend by the invitation of Carney, a measure that has attracted the criticisms of the diaspora groups in Canada, including members of Carneyal Caucus.
The Modi government has been accused or involved in violence and intimidation against SIJS activists and politicians in Canada, including the murder of Hardep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in 2023.The international relations expert says that India should have a seat at the G7 table
The Carney Government also invited Prince’s Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman to the summit, but the Saudi leader has not yet publicly accepted the invitation.
The Foreign Affairs Criticism of the NDP, Heather McPherson, accused the government of turning the summit into a “shown show” with the invitations of Bin Salman and Modi Turning Hourk forgod on Tuesday.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand, replied that the G7 is “a critical forum for global leaders to have productive and frank discussions.”
Vina Nadjibulla, vice president of the Asia Pacific Foundation in Canada, said that Trump’s elections and the growing threat environment require a “different approach” for diplomatic relations, which is exhibited under Carney.
The invitation to Modi was particularly necessary, he said, given the size of the economy of India and the strategic importance. He added that restoring the relationship with India could lead to greater cooperation on the issue of transnational violence and foreign interference.
“I think we must recognize that in the most dangerous world today, we need to be able to participate and have high -level conversations with which we have serious disagreements,”
Why is Canada’s leadership important
Perry said Canada will have his work trimmed to preside over the G7, but agreed that the moment was good that the responsibility arose this year, with Trump’s commercial war in his early stages.
“You can have a role in the configuration of things, and it can be found at a table that literally organized for an argument that helps the agenda, with the leaders of … most of the world’s main economies, including the president of what was said.”
“It’s a fairly unique role and opportunity for Canada.”
He suggested that the summit will also be a fundamental test for Carney as Prime Minister, not only in the relationship with Trump, but with the other leaders at that table.
“If the Prime Minister of Canada cannot take advantage of the time with six world leaders and an opportunity for Canadian creation, hebostly should consider other lines of work,” he said.