G7 foreign ministers start talks in Quebec with Ukraine ceasefire, U.S. tariffs on the agenda [Video]

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Thursday she’s focused on working with Canada’s peers to address global challenges as she welcomes her counterparts from the U.S., Europe and Japan to Quebec’s Charlevoix region.

“We must meet the moment,” Joly said as she opened the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting. “We should not be daunted by the task.”

While she said in her opening remarks to the ministers that American tariffs would be the focus of her closed-door talks, Joly did not directly mention American economic coercion or U.S. President Donald Trump’s calls for Canada’s annexation.

Joly spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio individually before opening the G7 meeting Thursday morning.

The foreign minister are starting the gathering with a discussion of the 50-year-old G7’s function and major geopolitical hot spots ranging from Ukraine to …