Prime Minister Mark Carney is in and out of meetings Tuesday with heads of allied nations in Turkey’s capital on the margins of this year’s NATO summit.
The prime minister met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is hosting this year’s summit. He also held bilateral meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten.
Carney is later expected to meet with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and hold a trilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Norwegian Prime Minister Gahr Store.
Ahead of his trip, Carney named a German and Norwegian consortium as the preferred bidder for a fleet of submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy.
The NATO summit is expected to focus on a collective increase in defence budgeting as well as alliance unity amid an increasingly threatening world.
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Countries are expected to announce tens of billions of dollars in military spending around the margins of the summit.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is angling to purchase a fleet of Saab GlobalEye radar jets largely manufactured in Canada.
Carney has, in the meantime, been campaigning for allies to set up a multinational defence bank to help finance growth in the global defence sector.
Carney was to speak at a panel on the margins of the summit about financing the defence sector, but that’s been removed from his schedule.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, however, will take part.
Leaders are expected to gather for a dinner event Tuesday evening before the big North Atlantic Council meeting on Wednesday.
The summit is being streamlined this year, something experts say is to avoid diplomatic frictions.
U.S. President Donald Trump once again cast a shadow over the gathering after doubling down on provocative actions against allies since last year’s summit in The Hague.
Earlier this year, Trump made a case for America annexing Greenland, and later started a surprise war against Iran without warning allies in advance — then berated them for not helping his fight.
“a surprise war against Iran without warning allies in advance “??
This is some kind of reporting. Truth is allies couldn’t be trusted to keep their mouths shut.
Canada has lost its global relevance when Sockboi took to power. Face it, we don’t matter anymore on the geopolitical arena.
What was Carney the MOU collector pretending to accomplish there?
I bet, nothing for Canada.
How much of our taxes was wasted on this thing? Did Mrs skidMark pay for herself? Why was she even there, as a hood ornament?
Had to claim he’s meeting allies on the sidelines as no one wants to be seen with him.
Why is the spouse there? Is she working in behalf of brookfield?
Carney will be shown the door next election if he doesn’t resign beforehand. He is failing by all metrics.
@Flushed.
I am sure you thought Trudeau was doing a good job also. When will Careny get the deal he promised over a year ago now. LOL.
Liberals just keep winning and the Cuntservatives just keep whining.
We live in great times, so glad we have real Man as the PM and not a paper boy playing a queer cowboy.
Thank you Mr Carney we are finally heading the right direction.
YESSSSS! Another 900 million for Ukraine that will teach those dang Russians.
How much did this trip cost just to go to Turkey, obviously NATO didn’t foot the bill!!
Carney rimming Trump at the NATO summit?
Carnhole lol I luv it
Carney apparently, according to some media reports, used a phone he had during his time in the UK as Bank of England head, basically a burner phone, to call the heads of EU countries to try to get them onside. He obviously didn’t want Canadians to know what he was doing. One has to wonder just what else is he hiding from Canadians with his burner phone antics?
Carnhole will be eating his eurotrash friends azz out
Carnhole was on his knees sucking his eurotrash friends
Carney. Pretending he is relevant and that he has a role in the Alliance.
PP would certainly do better than Carney with Trump. Carney flips flops daily from “Elbows Up” to total bootlicking. Carney is a total cheeseball.
You want a “threatening world” just go hang around with the European war-mongering elite.
Sidelines.
Exactly where he belongs.
…and Carney’s wife was a Canadian citizen so what’s your UK dig? Too bad your “soccer” team lost.
Carney just appointed another ex Con MP. Rednecks don’t quite know how to respond. lol
@Marliyn Gladu
Sure there.
“Mark Carney’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, was born in 1965 in the United Kingdom.”
@ F:
Morons going after Carney’s wife now but at least he married a Canadian unlike PP whose wife cared nothing for the earthquakes in her country.
And trump not invited to any meetings of allies.
No kidding.
Nikki Sudds is the russian troll Peter Belinski the coward who won’t enlist in Ukraine but wants young kids to die for him.
Peter is a huge Zelinski fundraiser and he doesn’t even know it. Stupid or what?
@Marco: Yeah, they love him in Europe and gave his speech a standing ovation at Davos.
As for your god, he got booed roundly at his own soccer game.
trumper. LOL.
Carney is on the sidelines at NATO. He is irrelevant and has no role in the organization. What value can he add other than virtue signalling.
Does Carney ever spend any length of time in Canada. He is always traveling and achieving nothing to help the Canadian economy
Ben
July 7, 2026 at 10:04 am
Hello everyone I’m a paid liberal troll I hope you believe my B S comments
Why dont you just f*ck off.
Hello everyone I’m a paid liberal troll I hope you believe my B S comments
Ben. Canada has been a fading nation for quite some time now. All self inflicted by poor Liberal policies.
Will Carney regurgitate his erroneous “Davos” speech all the while bootlicking Trump at the same time. NATO can’t operate without the USA. Carney is dreaming in technicolor.
I am sure he will.come back with lots of MOUs for his idiots to salivate over
Trump has done more to unravel the alliance than any other president in history. The US is doing what a fading power does-pulling out troops from Europe. The US can’t win wars either (Iran, Afghanistan).
I see wifey is seeing the world at our expense as well. Thought this was a business trip, not a vacation. Go to h*ll Carney.