Japan-Canada Relations
Japan-Canada Summit Meeting
June 16, 2025
(Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
(Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
On June 16, commencing at 2:35 p.m. local time (5:35a.m. on June 17, Japan time) for approximately 20 minutes, Mr. ISHIBA Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan, held a summit meeting with the Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, during his visit to Canada to attend the G7 Kananaskis Summit Meeting. The overview of the talk is as follows.
- Prime Minister Ishiba expressed his respect to Prime Minister Carney on his leadership for hosting the G7 Summit Meeting, and also his sympathies to those affected by the wildfires in Canada.
- Prime Minister Ishiba welcomed the strengthened Japan-Canada strategic partnership. The two leaders concurred on fortifying Japan-Canada security cooperation by signing, at an early date, the Agreement on the Security of Information and the Agreement concerning Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology, which reached an agreement in principle respectively this year, in addition to the ongoing cooperation based on the Agreement concerning Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between the Self-Defense Forces of Japan and the Canadian Armed Forces, which is already in force.
- The two leaders welcomed the progress made in LNG Canada and small modular reactor projects in which Japanese companies are involved. The two leaders also discussed the possibility of cooperation between Japan and Canada in various areas including batteries and critical minerals. The two leaders held discussions on a wide range of economic issues, including on increased uncertainty of the global economy and the multilateral free trade system.