Carney arrives in London to meet King Charles and U.K. prime minister

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 12:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney landed successful England connected Monday wherever helium volition person a backstage assemblage with King Charles earlier gathering with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer successful London.

This is Carney's archetypal authoritative overseas travel since helium was sworn successful connected March 14, with visits to France and the U.K. He volition halt in Iqaluit connected his mode home.

The travel to London volition beryllium a spot of a homecoming, arsenic Carney became the archetypal non-British politician successful the Bank of England's 319-year past erstwhile helium took implicit the apical occupation connected July 1, 2013. He served until March 15, 2020.

Carney, High Commissioner Ralph Goodale and Carney's acting main of unit Marco Mendicino are each travelling to Buckingham Palace, but lone the premier curate volition bask an assemblage with the King. 

Carney began the time successful Paris with a sojourn to the rebuilt Notre-Dame Cathedral earlier sitting down for a backstage luncheon with French President Emmanuel Macron astatine the Palais de l'Élysée. 

"It is much important than ever for Canada to fortify its ties with its reliable allies, specified arsenic France," Carney said successful French earlier luncheon with Macron.

Describing Canada arsenic the "most European of non-European countries," Carney told Macron helium is "determined, similar you, to support the astir affirmative imaginable relations with the United States.

"We indispensable fortify our diplomatic ties to code a satellite that is progressively unstable and dangerous," helium said. "Canada is simply a reliable, trustworthy and beardown spouse of France, which shares our values and lives them done action, during this property of economical and geopolitical crisis."

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Macron said the diplomatic narration with Canada supports the values some countries clasp dear, specified arsenic the "development for just commercialized and extortion of the planet" and the defence of democracy.

"We are receiving you and welcoming you arsenic a person with large joyousness and forming of a batch of ambition and galore projects together," helium said.

Since U.S. President Donald Trump came backmost into office, helium has imposed tariffs connected Canadian goods including alloy and aluminum and made galore remarks astir his tendency to crook Canada into the 51st state. He is threatening to enforce tariffs connected each Canadian products connected April 2.

Macron did not notation Trump by sanction but helium did condemn the imposition of tariffs connected U.S. allies. 

"We judge that just commercialized that respects planetary rules is simply a bully happening for everyone's prosperity," Macron said. "It's acold much effectual than tariffs that simply make ostentation and destruct the integration of our economies and our proviso chains."