Carney, Trump to sit down Monday ahead of G7 start as work continues on tariff deal

Catharine Tunney · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 1:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

In his archetypal large trial astatine the G7, Prime Minister Mark Carney volition conscionable with U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday morning, according to an authoritative successful his office.

The Prime Minister's Office said the 2 leaders volition beryllium down one-on-one earlier the main talks with the different leaders officially get underway. 

Carney has been keen to ink a woody with Trump connected commercialized and security, and for the U.S. president to driblet his punishing tariffs connected Canadian steel, aluminum and the car industry. 

Earlier this week CBC/Radio-Canada reported Canada and the U.S. look to beryllium making advancement toward immoderate benignant of commercialized agreement. Sources with nonstop cognition of the concern said a moving papers outlining details of a imaginable woody has been sent backmost and distant betwixt Ottawa and Washington. 

The papers is considered a measurement toward the wide extremity of reaching a deal, but sources cautioned enactment needs to beryllium done earlier there's an agreement.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Canadian officials will continue to "grind away" connected getting a woody past the decorativeness line, adding there's a level of uncertainty successful dealing with the U.S. administration. 

"So if connected Sunday, it looks similar there's nary agreement, Monday night, [we] tin abruptly beryllium successful agreement. If we deliberation we made advancement 2 weeks ago, well, 2 weeks later, we haven't gotten the statement we want," helium told Rosemary Barton Live successful an interrogation that aired Sunday.

The Canada broadside is moving connected the economic-defence woody "with a existent consciousness of urgency and vexation that evidently is fuelled by what concern and national and workers are telling us," helium added.

Trump was asked arsenic helium near the White House Sunday whether helium expected to denote immoderate commercialized deals during the summit 

"I deliberation we'll person a fewer caller commercialized deals, yeah," helium said. 

Carney is acold from the lone satellite person seeking deals with Trump during his travel to Kananaskis, Alta., arsenic his medication pushes an assertive commercialized presumption that's shaking up planetary markets.

The leaders of immoderate of the astir almighty democracies person begun landing successful Alberta connected Sunday up of the high-stakes gathering set against the scenery of the Canadian Rockies, with the acme dispersed implicit the picturesque communities of Kananaskis, Banff and Calgary. 

This year's gathering volition mostly beryllium judged connected whether a radical built connected statement tin really get along.

The G7 — which includes the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy and Canada, arsenic good arsenic the European Union — has met annually for the past 50 years to signifier a co-ordinated dependable connected large issues, including commercialized and economics, information and clime change.

No associated communiqué

But the radical has go much fractured implicit the years. The past clip Trump attended a G7 successful Canada backmost successful 2018, helium sent the gathering into disarray and withheld U.S. enactment from the associated communiqué typically issued astatine the extremity of the summit.

This year, Canadian organizers are taking a antithetic way and are forgoing the accepted database of priorities and accomplishments that each countries hold to sign.

Instead, Canada is looking to unafraid leaders' support connected a bid of short, associated statements focused connected factual actions and outcomes successful cardinal areas, a elder authorities authoritative said up of the summit.

WATCH | What are Canada's objectives for the G7 summit?

This year, Carney has acceptable a database of priorities reflective of the challenging authorities of the world. 

That's been further crystallized by Israel's deadly astonishment onslaught Friday connected Iranian atomic sites. The 2 countries person traded strikes successful the 3 days since, increasing calls for the G7 countries to de-escalate the concern and intervene connected Iran's atomic capabilities.

Speaking from Ottawa earlier travelling west, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the Israel-Iran conflict the "centrepiece" of the summit.

"This provides the accidental to speech to our co-leaders astir the fast-moving situation, and to marque our beardown lawsuit together that determination indispensable beryllium de-escalation of this struggle successful the interests of the region, and of people the world," helium said Sunday. 

LISTEN | Can the G7 find bid successful the chaos?

The different summit priorities, according to the Prime Minister's Office, include energy information — with a absorption connected captious minerals and artificial quality — and "securing the partnerships of the future."

With parts of Western Canada inactive grappling with a devastating occurrence season, Carney has besides enactment wildfires connected the agenda.

In summation to the G7 members, leaders from India, Brazil, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Ukraine, Mexico and Australia person been invited for astatine slightest portion of the proceedings, on with the secretaries wide of the United Nations, NATO and the European Union, and the caput of the World Bank.