Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is welcoming her counterparts from some of the world’s most powerful countries to Quebec this week as Ottawa works to maintain unity between Washington and its G7 partners and pushes back on U.S. tariffs.
“We all need to band together in the best way that we can,” said Sen. Peter Boehm, a former diplomat who played a central role in Canada’s participation in the G7 for decades.
“Success is getting a statement out that is consensual, and that touches all of the bases.”
The foreign ministers of the G7 nations will meet from late Wednesday to Friday afternoon in the Charlevoix region of Quebec. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to attend, alongside representatives from the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the European Union.
The ministers are scheduled to hold an early afternoon news conference on Friday.
Those ministers have been facing …