Carney praises Canadian unity as Canada Day celebrations kick off

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 01, 2025 10:31 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

In his archetypal Canada Day code arsenic premier minister, Mark Carney emphasized Canadian unity successful a "changing" world. 

"One 100 and fifty-eight years ago, a fewer provinces stake connected the thought that they'd beryllium stronger unneurotic than they ever could beryllium apart. They were right, and truthful they became a caller federation that's present grown into our strong, bilingual, multicultural and ambitious country," Carney said successful his video address. 

That unity includes penning the country's "next chapter" unneurotic "in existent concern with First Nations, Inuit and Métis." 

The premier curate took a infinitesimal successful the video to admit the caller challenges the state has been facing. 

"The satellite is changing. Old friendships are fraying, our system is being buffeted by a commercialized crisis and our values are being tested by attacks connected ideology and freedoms," helium said. 

But Carney noted that Canadians person been uniting "in a much divided and unsafe world," pointing to his 1 Canadian system program arsenic a mode to propulsion backmost against instability. 

"This is the top federation connected earth. Our destiny is to marque it greater inactive — not by what we say, but by what we do. Happy Canada Day," said Carney.