Political leaders and policy experts from around the world gathered in Toronto on Saturday for the 2026 Global Progress Action Summit.
The summit, co-hosted by Canada 2020 and the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF), is a day-long event focused on economic security, democracy and global co-operation, according to a release by the CAPAF.
It featured Prime Minister Mark Carney alongside several federal cabinet ministers, including Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
Former U.S. president Barack Obama was also in attendance.
Joly started off the summit Saturday morning, hosting a discussion with former U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on rebuilding trust through economic security.
During the discussion, Joly spoke about the global impact of U.S. policies.
“What is going on in the U.S. doesn’t stay in the U.S.,” she said. “It has an impact across the world.”
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“If the U.S. democracy is not working well, it has an impact on all democracies,” she added.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand developed the idea during a panel on the ever-changing Canada-U.S. relations.
“Canadians and Americans on both sides of the border want to see our countries grow together for decades and decades to come,” Anand said.
“Trade diversification is a means of de-risking in this moment where there is a complete breakdown of the global trading order,” she said.
Speaking later in the day, Carney addressed Canada’s economic relationship with the United States amid ongoing tariffs on sectors including steel, aluminum and autos.
“We still have the best trade deal with the United States,” Carney said. “Over 85 per cent of our goods move tariff-free across the border.”
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He said Canada remains open to “deeper integration” with the U.S., including what he described as a possible “Fortress North America” approach in select sectors.
However, Carney said Canada is also prepared to expand elsewhere if deeper integration is not possible.
“If that route is not ultimately possible, we will invest heavily in new markets and products,” he said. “We will reward those who build, buy and produce in Canada.”
Carney also spoke about artificial intelligence and Canada’s upcoming AI strategy, saying Canadians want technology that is “safe and sovereign” and creates economic opportunities while strengthening public services.
In closing remarks, Carney called for bold economic action amid global uncertainty.
“We have to take risks again,” he said. “Because in a crisis, fortune favors the bold.”
U.S. President Donald Trump did not attend the summit.
Other sessions throughout the day focused on foreign affairs, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and democratic institutions, according to the organizers.
Meanwhile, some supporters are saying the summit highlights international collaboration on shared economic and political challenges.
The Liberal Trolls are out in full force in this comment section. LOL
Trump totally dominating Carney. Carney stated in the election he was “the only” guy” who could get a deal with Trump as he understood Trump and knew how things work. Total strikeout and massive fail by Carney.
PIERRE POILIEVRE 2036!!!!
Mr.Carney would be more than happy to challenge ANY conservative to a battle of wits…. but he refuses to fight UNARMED people.
Loving that Trump is punishing Canada. Canadians took America for granted, bashed us for their own domestic purposes, and not the hand that feeds them. Perhaps be more respectful to a tradingpartner going forward and don’t freeload off our generosity. .
Carney flips flops daily depending on what Cue Ball David Cochrane tells him what is the trend for that moment in time. This is the attributes of a spineless leader.
I expect Carney to suddenly resign soon. He has not fulfilled his promises to deal with the USA. His promises of fast tracking projects have resulted in more bureaucracies and red tape. His so called trade deals are just Memorandums of Understanding. He is failing and his ego won’t allow him to admit that. So I expect he will come up with some excuse to jump ship and move to the USA to run Brookfield.
The majority of Carneys investments are outside of Canada. So much for Canada first.
So now Carney has already contradicted his “Davos” speech. What a charlatan this guy is.
The cracks in Carney are really starting to show with his broken promises and false hope.
“Libbys love PP”
Your focus is centered on the Opposition Party, not the Party that has been running the Country into the ground over the last decade.
Time for you to remove the blinders
So many Liberal hacks and bots on this one just shows they are afraid of the exposure of nothing actually achieved by Carney, and his boot licking of Trump by wanting to “integrate” more with the US, is showing his capitulation. So much for Elbows Up Eh !!!
I worked as a part time teacher (got fired), snow boarding instructor, and wore shoe polish on my face. Liberals had no problem supporting me for over a decade.
Libs didn’t mind no qualifications when they supported Trudeau for a decade.
Obviously some commenter is worried about Carneys failings, all he talks about is PP. The thread and article is about Carney.
Marilyn Gladu’s pronouns are he/him. Hence why she crossed over to the Liberals
I am better qualified than PP.
I have a job mowing lawns.
PP ?
Carney will crash and burn. Just like Trudeau. Give it time, the next election is 3 years away. So far all Carney has done is give fancy speeches, but Canadians are worse off.
Carney moved my canola oil for me after I couldn’t.
He’s making tons of deals.
PP? No one even knows where he’s hiding.
Nice job for PP
@Libby. Yet again trying to deflect from Carneys failings as PM.
@ subject of: You say nothing changed? Where have you been? PP had a 28 point lead with an empty net to shoot at.
He shot the puck at his own goalie instead.
Where is PP?
He has a huge taxpayer paid mansion with a free chauffeur and chef.
But where is our opposition leader?
At home in bed?
A room full of privileged ,lay about Liberals trying to cover up a decade of their own policy failures and reckless spending by pointing the finger anywhere but towards themselves. At least they are consistent .
Nothing has changed in Canadian politics.
After a year of huge promises, Carney has not delivered on anything. He told everyone he was the “only guy” to get a trade deal with Trump. Not one project has been approved yet. Carney has not got even 1 tariff line reduced a or eliminated since he became PM.
@No opposition.
It seems you are trying to deflect from Carneys total failures so far. So info , PP isn’t in Govt, Carney is. The buck stops with him.
@diesel: He’s quite the working man hero. He still has his mansion despite never having a job.
Way to pick ’em cons!
He conned you guys.
PP is at 33% in the polls.
He had a 28 point lead on Carney and totally phucked it up handing out coffee to clownvoyers blaring horns outside his riding’s hospital.
You can’t make this up. Blaring horns at 3 a.m.
He’s been kicked thousands of miles away now.
@Darcy. Carney is now asking for closer integration with the USA. Just a year after his cheesy Elbows Up shtick.
Hilarious how no show PP’s fans have only b.s. to share.
Where is he?
Hiding with his immigrant wife?
@ some guy: zure zhithead. That’s why he’s going up in the mid-60s in the polls eh liar?
lol….where’s your idol PP?
Talk about a no show!
Talk Carney showboating again to distract from his failing record to move Canada forward .It will take another year or ten for the slower Canadians who put him in power to realize they have been fooled again. After all, they are the same group that kept Trudeau on the porcelain throne for a decade, lapping up his verbal fertilizer.
I am thankful every day that Mark Carney is our Prime Minister. I 100% believe in his policies that move Canada out of the US shadow, reaching out to other global, like minded, countries. He is well-educated, mindful and methodical.
Well I can tell you that Mark Carney is the 2nd hardest working PM we have ever had next to our former great leader Justin Trudeau. I’ve been walking around with my elbows up for over a year now fighting the big bullies Trump and P.P.,and they aren’t coming down until P.M. Carney tells me to do so.My arms got tired after the first hour so I tied some rope to my elbows then put it over the top of my head to hold them up while watching the CBC one evening.People tell me “I should seek help” but I say “No way,I’m a Liberal,Carney Trudeau supporter!” and then they say ” Well ,that’s not surprising”.
Phuk off Carney you dweeb
all talk, no action carney
Carney totally getting roasted on this thread. Not surprised as his track record so far has been abysmal.
@Anon. Where is the trade deal with the USA that Carney promised over a year ago? Total strikeout.
Not one thing for Canadians has gotten better under Carney, even more lost jobs last month.
Carney sure loves giving speeches to those that feel the same way as him (Davos). He is all talk and no action evidently by all the speeches he makes, but still can barely show up in Parliament for a debate.
So after all this Elbows Up rhetoric by Carney, now he wants to deepen ties with the USA. Carney flip flops more than a fish out of water. Total amateur hour
@Anon
Lots of con PP cocsuckers on here, folks
Lots of hard working tax paying Canadians taking risks every day, taking the bus to work, walking to the food bank to feed their family then taking the bus home with bags of food hoping not to get robbed on the bus!
I don’t pretend to know what the answer is, but what Canada has become over the last 10-15 years certainly is not the answer.
I have notice that Markus Carnus seems to parrot back what ever the feeling is in the room he speaks. Let’s see, he started with Canada should align with China, then EU, now USA.
Could the real Mark Carney stand up?
I liked the stagnant canola oil for EVs trade.
Rednecks here prefer their trump gas prices. Pretty funny. Stinky fumes.
Where is PP this month?
Not much opposition coming from the mansion.
Let Danielle start digging a new deep sea port in Red Deer. Rednecks would love that.
@russian Rodney: LOL…more trade deals signed in one year than in the previous ten.
How’s your Putin/trump doing? Zhitty?
Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a broad vision for Canada’s future at the Global Progress Action Summit in Toronto.
Wonderful another ‘new vision’. Countries don’t run on visions, countries run on actions. Seem suspicious that our Prime Minister is refusing to do anything except travel the world for wine and cheese parties. Is there a reason why he seems to be destroying Canada?
Not a lot of support for Carney except for one person who is all in with the Liberals and makes fun of the USA and PP to deflect from Carneys failures so far
@Dennis Brady That’s quite the doom and Gloom comment with actually no truth yo back it up. What country are you posting this from?
He wouldn’t take a “risk” with his investments just yours. Hes going to steal our CPP and hand it to his buddies.
@Red Deer:
Cbc news, Oct 16, 2019
“Barack Obama has tweeted an endorsement of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and says he hopes Canadians give Trudeau “another term” in office. “I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President,” Obama wrote on Wednesday afternoon. “He’s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term.””
Build a damn pipeline already!
Over a year in office and not one shovel in the ground on ANY major new project!
Carney is fast tracking 33000 temporary foreign workers, for permanent resident status. ” To fill a need for all the vacant jobs”
This just after the unemployment numbers just released, youth employment down, 33-54 employment down! Can you tell me my government is working to help CANADIANS!
How long before the light goes click? Can we not see that it’s our own government bankrupting us? I mean come on people, stop with the idiocy, and hold your Leaders to account. Our lives have gotten worse under 10 years of Liberal leadership….period.
Taxes, censorship, cost of living. What else matters? Wake up!
Carney flip flopping daily on major Govt policy.
Carney said he wants a NEW WORLD ORDER. Soros said it is ok for the Canadian dollar to decline. This summit is to further destroy Canada and let China come in to control us. The useful idiots keep voting the scumbag liberals and ndp in, so many brainless dweebs
Carney and Mike Meyers are total cheeseballs with this “Elbows Up” nonsense. I am sure it will age as well as. “Sunny Ways”. LOL
Risks? How much money did Trudeau and Carney waste on the EV bubble, now totally collapsing in North America. Poor decision have consequences.
Not to worry, in about 2 years the narrative will reverse and all you elbozos will be told by your overlords to like and respect our US neighbours. You’ll wave American flags and rejoice in a stable trading partner. Wonder who will be the bad guy when Trump leaves office?
@Anon.
Honda just shelved its EV plant in Aliston. Try reading the business section once and awhile.
Carneys Major Projects Office has been a total failure. Not one project “referred “ to them has been approved and nothing has broken ground. I thought Canada was going to move at speeds never seen before, all promised by Carney.
Why the hell would we want anymore deeper integration with the U.S. Diversify and move away from the U.S , did you not learn anything.
LMAO so much for the Elbows Up nonsense. I bet those Elbozoes are feeling pretty much like they have been had about now. “Integrate more with the US” wasn’t Carney just saying how our relationship with the USA was gone. What a dufuss !!!
Where is the trade deal Carney promised over a year ago with Trump. Total strikeout just like his “Weslth” fund funded by debt. Hilarious
@ elbowsup: You are really stupid. Who cares about polling in a democracy eh?
You give yourself away.
Lots of yanks and russkies here like the news said. Both of them responsible for most wars.
Who cares about polling? Lol He needs to show results and nothing yet. Trudeau used to poll good also till he didn’t.
PP’s foreign posters here. lol….Carney polling in high 60’s.
@ liar “spank my doodle”….That’s why all the polls show him in mid 30s eh?
trump can’t travel anywhere without boos.
@Butch Miller: Are you nuts or just insane? My EV runs great and recharged for the week for $8.21. How ’bout your refill? LOL
Let’s re-imagine the economy in Canada and impoverish Canadians even more.
There is no business case for an Oil and Gas Industry in Canada. Let’s invest in EVs, Solar Cells, and Windmills.
The only thing we “have to do” is arrest, convict and execute every liberal politician.
Trudeau and Carney took “chances” on the EV Industry. Been a total flop so far. Poor choices by the Liberals lead by a green fantasy ideology and wokeism.
since im still a canadian im against taking chances. we took chances on a casino,cricket plant, battery plant, etc just invest in things that have nade money before too much debt for chance taking. gooo carney
This was a TDS “super-spreader event”.
Anon thinks he is da Man. Really a total loo-zer
Anon sounds like a total Dodo. Probably supported Tru-DOH the entire time and now Carnival Carney.
@anonymous
” I always bought home stuff”
Well that explains your single malt diatribes.
A meeting of the marxists
USA doing so much better under POTUS Trump than anytime under Obama.
@Anon.
You sound clueless. Kentucky Bourbon is some of the finest liquor in the world. You can be elbows up if you please but your lack of maturity is clearly showing
Carney pontificating to the world but nobody care. He is trying to distract from his broken promises and lack of results so far after a year as PM.
American beer is watered down rat pizz and their “whiskey” is worse. I always bought home stuff anyway.
Glad we have Carney and not that Con PP who has never even had a job. Can anyone name a private sector job he ever had? Nope.
The results of Carney’s so-called “…best trade deal with the United States…”
Key Employment Data – April 2026
• Unemployment Rate: 6.9% (up 0.2 percentage points from March).Total Unemployed: ~1,566,400.
• Job Market Conditions: Net employment fell by 17,700 positions, as reported by Trading Economics.
• Participation Rate: 65.0%.
• Long-term Unemployment: 22.5% of the unemployed population had been looking for work for six months or more.
….hmmm…wondering what the worst deal will look like after CUSMA 2026… fasten your seatbelts.
All Carney can do is make speeches and announcements. After a year, he has no actions or results to speak of. Talk is cheap Carney
lol Clearly its the Epstein list summit then. Another money laundering scam in progress.
Obama. A disgrace then and irrelevant now. Like Trudeau
Obama and Trudeau had an open bromance. Also, Trump got in as POTUS in 2016 as Americans despised the Democrats and Obama and Hilary was a horrible option.
trump can’t show his face in any NATO allied countries.
Too much of a Putin guy.
Or Epstein’s girlies.
@AB proud: You are, of course, a liar. President Obama endorsed no one.
@ Bozo-up: Hey Yank, maybe your idiot idol can stop starting wars.
I see he had a solid gold statue made of himself.
Devil or what?
Maybe Carney can start working on progress for the Canadian economy. More jobs were lost last months, mainly for the 18-25 cohort.
Obama is nothing special. He endorsed Trudeau as PM. What a disgrace that was.
Did anyone really expect the US president to attend something that was undoubtedly not arranged by him. Not surprised.
If Obama’s attending, you know this can’t be a good thing.
Remember when former presidents just faded quietly away from public life? Good times. I guess Barry the narcissist needs the constant attention.
Obama gets ovations here.
trump knows not to come.