Military vehicles and aircraft en route to Kananaskis, info centre opens ahead of G7

Robson Fletcher · CBC News

· Posted: May 15, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The 2025 G7 leaders' acme is coming to Kananaskis successful June but enactment has already begun in mentation for the planetary event.

Officials person present opened a G7 assemblage accusation centre astatine the Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino, located astatine the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 40, astir 75 kilometres westbound of Calgary.

The centre is open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Friday, until June 9. It's determination to reply questions oregon code concerns country residents whitethorn person astir the summit, which volition spot a ample constabulary and subject beingness arsenic good arsenic question restrictions successful a controlled entree zone where satellite leaders volition beryllium attendance.

Employees with Global Affairs Canada's Summits Management Office volition besides beryllium astatine the centre to code questions oregon concerns related to accreditation for radical supporting oregon participating successful the G7 event.

Accreditation volition beryllium required to participate and exit the controlled entree portion from June 10 to 18.

The RCMP are starring an integrated radical of constabulary and subject unit that volition beryllium liable for information astatine the summit.

They said Wednesday that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) program to determination "a important fig of subject vehicles" from Edmonton to Calgary, May 15 to 30, for the event.

"The CAF is enhancing and complementing the information and information efforts by providing readying support, aerial mobility support, agrarian terrain surveillance, chemic biological, radiological, atomic and explosive response, as good arsenic aerospace defence," the RCMP said successful a release.

"Before and during the G7, the nationalist whitethorn spot members of the subject moving alongside members of the RCMP conducting operations astatine assorted locations successful the area."

The RCMP person besides said the nationalist tin expect to spot Royal Canadian Air Force craft flying successful and astir Kananaskis, "sometimes astatine little altitudes and successful formations of aggregate aircraft, arsenic aircrews signifier procedures and familiarize themselves with operating successful the region."

The craft see CF-18 Hornet combatant jets, CH-147F Chinook helicopters and CH-146 Griffon helicopters.

The leaders' acme successful Kananaskis is acceptable for June 15 to 17.

G7 concern ministers gathering successful Banff

Finance ministers and cardinal slope governors from the G7 countries are acceptable to convene successful Banff from May 20 to 22.

"This volition beryllium an accidental to sermon issues impacting planetary economical stableness and maturation up of the 2025 G7 leaders' summit," the lawsuit billing explains.

The gathering volition beryllium overmuch smaller and impact acold less information restrictions than the main summit, said Fraser Logan, a spokesperson for the integrated information radical led by the RCMP.

Some information unit volition beryllium involved, Logan said, but their beingness volition beryllium little conspicuous than what the wide nationalist volition spot astir the main leaders' acme successful June, which is expected to impact thousands of planetary delegates and journalists, on with satellite leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump.

Jason Darrah, communications manager with the Town of Banff, said determination is nary expected interaction connected visitors oregon residents owed to the concern ministers' gathering successful May.

"There are nary planned roadworthy disruptions, detours oregon immoderate different restrictions," helium said successful an email.

"There volition beryllium much interaction with events specified arsenic the archetypal Banff Farmers Market of the twelvemonth connected May 21."