Mexico's president noncommittal about coming to Canada for G7 summit

John Paul Tasker · CBC News

· Posted: May 28, 2025 1:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday the Canadian authorities invited her to travel to Alberta for adjacent month's G7 leaders' acme but she hasn't yet decided whether she volition go.

She told reporters astatine a quality league that she's besides not definite if she would conscionable with Trump if she does determine to attend.

The hesitation is notable due to the fact that Canada-Mexico relations person been astatine thing of a debased constituent successful caller months arsenic some countries grapple with U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and economical threats — a commercialized quality that has prompted immoderate back-biting betwixt the 2 American neighbours arsenic Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls for Canada to spell it unsocial with the U.S. connected trade.

As the big state for this year's acme of immoderate of the world's astir almighty leaders, Canada tin invitation others to travel and instrumentality portion successful the discussions.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has signalled helium whitethorn usage the look clip with Trump astatine the gathering successful Kananaskis to sermon tariffs — a speech that could, successful theory, see Sheinbaum if she attends. That would beryllium the archetypal three-way gathering betwixt the leaders.

Speaking to reporters connected Tuesday, Mexico's system minister, Marcelo Ebrar, said helium expects a separate, planned reappraisal of the trilateral Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which is officially slated to commencement successful 2026, to statesman earlier than planned — in the 4th fourth of this year.

"The ceremonial commencement is expected astatine the extremity of September, the archetypal week of October, for evaluation," Ebrard told Mexican journalists connected the sidelines of a banking event.

Carney has been much cautious, saying helium wants to marque advancement connected bilateral issues with the U.S. earlier talks instrumentality spot connected CUSMA.

WATCH | Carney on U.S. relations:

Since Carney's sojourn to Washington aboriginal this month, Canadian officials person been holding talks with their U.S. counterparts to effort and get the Trump tariffs lifted.

The president is pursuing a three-pronged attack with border-related levies to supposedly punctual Canada and Mexico to ace down connected drugs and migrants, tariffs connected steel, aluminum and autos to bolster U.S. accumulation and alleged "reciprocal" tariffs connected goods coming from other, non-CUSMA countries to rise gross and reshore manufacturing.

Carney and his officials are trying to person the Americans that the borderline tariffs successful peculiar are bogus due to the fact that Canada is not a large root of fentanyl, particularly compared to what's coming from Mexico.

Carney has besides made the lawsuit that the U.S. car assemblage depends connected parts from northbound of the border, and needs input from this state to efficaciously vie with Asian manufacturers.

In an interrogation with CBC's Power & Politics on Tuesday, Carney said Canada wants tariff alleviation earlier it revists CUSMA — and helium reiterated the reappraisal isn't scheduled until adjacent year, adjacent if the Mexicans accidental it could hap sooner.

"We privation to marque nonstop advancement connected those issues earlier we person the broader review," Carney told big David Cochrane.

WATCH | Carney connected his government's ambitions: 

Still, helium signalled Canada isn't funny successful a prolonged combat implicit tariffs and trade.

Carney said "fairly intensive discussions" with the U.S. person been ongoing since helium spoke with Trump astatine the White House.

"I don't deliberation it is either of our nations' involvement to resistance retired that long. I deliberation the issues are getting into sharper relief," helium said. "But we are going to instrumentality arsenic overmuch clip arsenic indispensable to get the close woody for Canada, but nary more."

Calls for bilateral commercialized deal

Ontario's Ford has repeatedly called for a bilateral woody betwixt Canada and the U.S. — saying Mexico should beryllium chopped retired due to the fact that it's a root of transshipments, with Asian goods supposedly flooding into the continent done Mexican ports.

"I deliberation we request to beryllium down and let's get backmost to a USCA woody alternatively of USMCA deal, due to the fact that Mexico is bringing successful inexpensive parts from China, slapping connected a made-in-Mexico sticker and costing American and Canadian jobs," Ford said successful a caller interrogation connected CNBC.

"Clear the slate and let's determination forward," helium said.

Carney, though, has suggested helium wants to determination guardant with some the U.S. and Mexico on a trilateral deal. He spoke to Sheinbaum by telephone earlier this period and discussed trade.

In a summary of the call, the Prime Minister's Office said the brace assigned "senior officials to instantly enactment to find opportunities to deepen bilateral relations."

"We're going to support that captious concern successful the look of planetary economical shocks," Carney wrote connected societal media.

Sheinbaum herself tweeted that she congratulated Carney connected his predetermination triumph and "we agreed connected the value of the USMCA for the 3 nations."