Zelenskyy leaves G7 early, citing Russia attack — without meeting Trump, or joint statement from leaders

Canada and India to designate caller precocious commissioners

The Prime Minister's Office has released a readout from Carney's earlier gathering with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, connected the sidelines of the G7 summit.

According to the PMO, the 2 leaders "reaffirmed the value of Canada-India ties," the "rule of law," and "the rule of sovereignty and territorial integrity."

While not explicitly stated, speech of the "rule of law" could beryllium a thinly veiled notation to Canada's longstanding petition that the Indian authorities co-operate with Canadian constabulary and their probe into the execution of B.C. Sikh activistic and Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Similarly, the notation of "territorial integrity" could person been Modi raising Indian concerns astir Canadian Sikhs who are advocating for an autarkic Khalistan.

Nijjar and others successful that question person been calling for an autarkic Sikh homeland successful bluish India called Khalistan, which Modi's authorities has vigorously opposed and denounced arsenic a nationalist information threat.

The 2 leaders besides agreed contiguous to statesman rebuilding diplomatic and consular relations.

Carney and Modi volition designate caller precocious commissioners, "with a presumption to returning to regular services to citizens and businesses successful some countries."

While determination has been home disapproval of Carney's determination to invitation Modi to this acme — peculiarly from immoderate successful the Sikh assemblage — the premier curate justified the invitation by saying helium wanted the world's astir important leaders connected manus to sermon large issues. He besides signalled helium wants to grow economical ties with the world's 4th largest economy.

To that end, the 2 leaders agreed to "deepen engagement," peculiarly successful areas specified arsenic technology, the integer transition, nutrient information and captious minerals, according to the PMO readout.

Carney property league moved later

Carney’s closing quality league has been moved backmost to 8 p.m. EST (6 p.m. section time).

He was primitively going to instrumentality media questions earlier gathering with leaders from Mexico, India and South Korea, but is holding the meetings beforehand instead.

His quality league present starts astatine the aforesaid clip his beloved Edmonton Oilers look the Florida Panthers successful a bid to enactment live successful Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.

Carney says small successful photograph op with Modi

Carney's bilateral gathering with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is underway. The 2 conscionable had a speedy photograph op wherever they some made statements.

Carney's was markedly shorter than Modi's.

"It's a large honour to big you astatine the G7. India has been coming to the G7, I believe, since 2018 successful Biarritz," helium said. "It's a testament to the value of your country, to your enactment and to the value of the issues that we look to tackle together."

Those issues, Carney said, see "the aboriginal of artificial intelligence, the combat that we person against transnational repression, against coercion and against different factors."

Modi, meanwhile, congratulated Carney for winning the national predetermination successful April, and said helium believes "India-Canada relations are highly important and India and Canada should enactment together."

"We some basal for antiauthoritarian values. Together, we tin fortify antiauthoritarian values. We tin fortify humanity," Modi said.

The Indian leader’s beingness has caused contention amid tensions betwixt the 2 countries that roseate successful caller years, notably aft erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau blamed Modi's authorities for the sidesplitting of Sikh activistic Hardeep Singh Nijjar connected Canadian ungraded — which India denies.

Hundreds of protesters person gathered successful Calgary to explicit their choler astatine Modi's invitation to the summit.

Zelenskyy cuts his Canada sojourn short

I'm conscionable backmost from the Kananaskis acme site, wherever I spoke with sources from the Ukrainian delegation.

One of them told maine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is cutting his sojourn short. After G7 talks wrapped up, helium was expected to caput to Calgary for planned events and a property conference. But that's nary longer happening.

The root said Zelenskyy volition caput backmost to Kyiv aft talks present wrapper up. The alteration successful plans comes aft Russia's deadly onslaught successful Kyiv overnight and aft the G7 programme changed.

U.S. President Donald Trump besides near aboriginal past night, citing the Israel-Iran conflict.

Zelenskyy had travelled present to talk with Trump one-on-one and propulsion for stronger sanctions against Moscow, and to enactment unit connected Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But he’s leaving Canada contiguous without that gathering oregon a associated connection of enactment from G7 leaders.

'We person to beryllium acceptable for each eventuality' with Russia and China, says Rutte

Rutte said raising the NATO spending people is important due to the fact that adversaries "like Russia, but besides China" are expanding their subject activity.

"It's precise hard to get precisely into the caput of Vladimir Putin — I stopped a agelong clip agone to bash that, but intelligibly we person to beryllium acceptable for each eventuality," helium said.

"We cognize that China is gathering up its equipped forces. They are not doing that lone for the parades successful Beijing. They privation to bash thing with each those ships and combatant jets, et cetera," helium added, noting arsenic an illustration that Taiwan is simply a nonstop people of China's.

NATO caput assured Canada tin conscionable imaginable caller 3.5 per cent target

In an interrogation with CBC's Power & Politics big David Cochrane, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, speaking from Kananaskis, Alta., Tuesday, praised Canada's program to deed the alliance's 2 per cent defence spending people by March. But Rutte is besides instantly looking to rise that people to 5 per cent astatine the NATO acme adjacent week.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says Canada and European allies volition soon person to summation their defence spending to astatine slightest 3.5 per cent of their GDP to equalize their investments with the United States.

"That creates a stronger, a much equal, a much powerfully based confederation going forward," Rutte said successful an exclusive interrogation with CBC Power & Politics big David Cochrane. "I'm reasonably assured that Canada and the full confederation tin bash this.”

Rutte met with Carney earlier today. The premier curate has pledged to scope NATO’s long-held 2 per cent extremity by March.

But the people is expected to summation shortly, with the subject alliance's acme being held astatine The Hague adjacent week — wherever Rutte says helium volition besides person an extended gathering with Trump.

Despite Trump's aboriginal departure yesterday, Rutte said helium is assured the U.S. president is "completely committed to NATO, wholly commited to Article 5 – 'an onslaught connected 1 is an onslaught connected all' clause … truthful determination is nary doubt."

Here’s wherefore there’s nary associated connection connected Ukraine

While 1 was primitively planned, determination volition beryllium nary associated G7 connection connected Ukraine retired of this acme due to the fact that the Americans wanted to h2o it down and wouldn't hold to the last wording, a elder Canadian authoritative told reporters connected inheritance astatine the summit.

Instead, immoderate of the connection astir the warfare volition beryllium included successful Prime Minister Carney's "chair's statement."

The Americans did not privation immoderate of the pointed remarks astir Russia to beryllium included successful the associated connection due to the fact that they feared it would compromise their negotiations with that state implicit ending their war, the authoritative said.

The Canadian authoritative said the Americans didn't entity to the connection successful its entirety — conscionable immoderate aspects of it, but they couldn't accidental which ones specifically.

Diversifying captious mineral production, warring wildfires

Critical minerals is the taxable of a peculiarly lengthy statement. With China controlling truthful overmuch of the accumulation and proviso of these in-demand products, the G7 leaders are urgently focusing connected diversifying their accumulation — which could beryllium to Canada's benefit, fixed however galore of them tin beryllium recovered successful this country.

And, arsenic galore parts of Western Canada pain — on with the U.S. and different countries grappling with a akin occupation — the G7 leaders are promising to enactment intimately to tamp down wood fires and instrumentality a caller "wildfire charter."

Essentially, they're going to "enhance interoperability" truthful firefighting instrumentality from 1 state tin beryllium utilized successful the others, on with different commitments. The extremity is for radical to beryllium much easy deployed wherever the request is greatest.

New commitments connected AI, migrant smuggling

The leaders person agreed that AI should beryllium utilized to "grow prosperity, payment societies and code pressing planetary challenges,” Carney said.

Importantly, a large chunk of that connection talks astir however the G7 should absorption connected "the imaginable of AI successful our nationalist sectors to thrust ratio and amended service our publics."

Carney has repeatedly talked astir however AI tin beryllium utilized wrong the national authorities — thing that has rankled nationalist assemblage unions disquieted astir imaginable occupation losses.

On migrant smuggling, the G7 leaders are promising to "enhance borderline absorption and enforcement and dismantle the transnational organized transgression groups profiting" from quality trafficking.

They're going to usage “financial intelligence" to amended way down criminals who commercialized successful people, and past prehend their assets and "strip them of their profits." The G7 volition besides enactment with societal media companies to halt traffickers from utilizing those platforms for nefarious purposes.

No communiqué, but G7 countries merchandise six associated statements

Canada has conscionable released the six associated argumentation documents that each G7 leaders — including U.S. President Trump — person agreed to motion aft 2 days of treatment astatine this summit.

Notably, determination wasn’t a associated connection connected the warfare successful Ukraine, and determination isn't 1 expected. Trump has been captious of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was present contiguous to conscionable with Carney and others.

Unlike immoderate past summits, determination isn’t a azygous communiqué signed by each leaders. Canada was trying to amusement G7 unity by lone processing and releasing associated statements that person a consensus.

The six statements released see caller commitments connected artificial intelligence, quantum computing, migrant smuggling, transnational repression, captious minerals and wildfires.

You tin archer Carney had a manus successful drafting up the database of policies to absorption connected astatine this acme — he's seized with AI and captious minerals, successful particular, 2 issues helium spoke astir astatine magnitude connected the run trail.