Carney lays out Canada's G7 summit priorities while managing a complicated guest list

With 1 week to spell until G7 leaders stitchery successful Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced his priorities for the gathering and is managing a impermanent database that lays bare responsibility lines successful immoderate of Canada's planetary relationships.

The G7 leaders acme volition beryllium held successful Kananaskis from June 15 to 17. On Saturday, Carney said Canada volition "seek agreements and co-ordinated action" connected 3 halfway missions.

The archetypal is protecting Canadian communities and the satellite by strengthening bid and security, countering overseas interference arsenic good arsenic transnational transgression and improving associated responses to wildfires.

The 2nd is "building vigor information and accelerating the integer transition" done fortifying captious mineral proviso chains and utilizing artificial quality to boost economical growth.

Finally, Carney said Canada volition propulsion to unafraid caller partnerships that volition catalyze "enormous backstage concern to physique stronger infrastructure, make higher-paying jobs and unfastened dynamic markets wherever businesses tin vie and succeed."

Those planetary goals necktie intimately to Carney's home agenda. 

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Earlier this week, the Liberal authorities tabled the One Canadian Economy Act — a measure it says volition destruct national barriers to interior commercialized and explicate however nation-building infrastructure projects volition beryllium identified and approved faster.

Many provinces are anxious to instrumentality Carney up connected nation-building plans, particularly provinces acceptable to extract much captious minerals for their regions.

B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix said 1 task connected his caput is the North Coast Transmission Line, which would grow the province's energy strategy and could unlock much captious mineral extraction successful B.C.'s northwest.

"It's a task that exists. We're moving with First Nations connected [it] close now. That's a important project," Dix said successful an interrogation connected Rosemary Barton Live. 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is pushing to usage powers successful his government's recently passed Bill 5 to designate the mineral-rich Ring of Fire arsenic a peculiar economical zone, wherever furniture tin exempt companies and projects from having to comply with immoderate provincial law, provincial regularisation oregon municipal bylaw.

Ford enactment the Ring of Fire astatine the apical of his database presented to Prime Minister Mark Carney for information arsenic a imaginable nation-building project.

Tricky diplomacy with India, Mexico

Carney came nether occurrence earlier this week erstwhile it was announced he'd invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 acme conscionable months aft the RCMP accused his authorities of acts of murder, extortion and coercion.

The premier curate defended the determination and said connected Friday that India and Canada "have present agreed importantly to continued instrumentality enforcement dialogue. So there's been immoderate advancement connected that."

Last fall, the RCMP laid retired allegations accusing agents of the Indian authorities of playing a relation successful "widespread violence" successful Canada, including homicides, and warned that it poses "a superior menace to our nationalist safety."

That came aft Canada accused Indian authorities agents of being progressive successful the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian activistic for Sikh separatism.

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The Sikh Federation of Canada called the invitation "a sedate insult" and Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal, who represents the Surrey riding wherever Nijjar was shot, said neither helium nor galore of his constituents enactment Modi.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has besides been invited to the G7 summit, but it's not confirmed whether she volition be — a hesitation that underscores immoderate diplomatic tensions aft immoderate premiers suggested Canada ditch Mexico and prosecute a caller bilateral commercialized statement with the United States.

Arturo Sarukhán, erstwhile ambassador of Mexico to the United States, said Sheinbaum should be due to the fact that it would let her to "reset relationships with Canada" and permission speech "the pissing lucifer that Canadians and Mexicans person been successful since the fall."

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Sarukhán besides said connected Rosemary Barton Live that Mexico's attendance "would let Carney and Sheinbaum to person a archetypal sit-down with Donald Trump connected neutral ground" to sermon a looming renegotiation of the North American escaped commercialized deal. 

When asked whether the North American escaped commercialized woody volition clasp up, Sarukhán said "probably the result of the process is that we volition extremity up with 2 abstracted escaped commercialized agreements. One betwixt the U.S. and Canada [and] 1 betwixt Mexico and the United States."

"That's not a bully result for aboriginal North American competitiveness if the U.S. wants to beryllium palmy successful its recalibration of its narration with Beijing," Sarukhán said. "It needs Canada and Mexico for that recalibration to beryllium successful."