Warsaw – Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Poland on Saturday, discontinued a comprehensive mission to deepen economic and security relations with European colleagues.
The Prime Minister sent Ottawa in the morning for a European visit, which would include stops in Warsaw, Berlin and Riga, Latvia.
This is his fourth visit to Europe since assuming office in March, as he proceeds to align Canada closely with Europe, while the relationship with the United States under President Donald Trump is sour.
Carney said on Friday that Natural Resource Minister Tim Hodgson, Defense Minister David McGinti and Industry Minister Meleni Jolie will attend the tour with him.
Just a few days after taking oath in the last winter, he flew to France and United Kingdom, where he called Canada “the most European of non-European nations”. Squeezing the journey just before an election, Carney met with French President Emmanuel Macron, King Charles and British Prime Minister Kir Stmper in a single day.
In May, he traveled to Rome for the inaugural mass for Pop Lio XIV, and held meetings with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
In June, he traveled to Brussels, where he signed a new rescue and security agreement with the European Union. The agreement paved the way for Canada to participate in a large-scale r-arm Europe initiative, strengthened relations in the defense industry and overcome Canada from such heavy dependence on America
He also attended the summit of NATO leaders in the Netherlands.
A senior government official told reporters before the visit that bringing Canada closer to Europe is a “highest priority” for the Carney Government.
The journey is widely to deepen defense and safety pacts with the existing colleagues in the United States’s ongoing global tariff campaign helping to diversify the Canadian trade prospects.
While living in Poland, Carney is expected to meet with Prime Minister Donald Task and President Karol Navarki.
The senior official said that the energy, defense and aerospace between other industries would be a priority in Poland, as support for Ukraine.
Poland is a major transit center for military aid for Ukraine.
Since 2015, Canada has trained 45,000 Ukrainian troops through Operation Uniform. Since the full -scale invasion of Russia’s Ukraine in February 2022, most of that training has taken place in Poland.
Marsin Gabris, president of Canadian Studies at the University of Jagylonian in Craco, said Poland has a “very solid foundation” in his relations with Canada, and wants to cooperate more in areas such as nuclear technology, the two countries sang an agreement in January for projects such as small modular reacts.
“There are a lot of opportunities in the context of economic cooperation,” he said, in mining and important minerals, and relations through Poland’s large migrant migrants in Canada.
The stores of important Canadian’s important minerals are also expected to focus a significant focus on Carney’s interaction with officials and business leaders in Germany.
Carney is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Frederick Merz in Berlin on Tuesday.
Carney said on Friday that he was looking at Canada’s current partnership with Germany.
He said, “From important minerals to energy and defense and safety, where we are intensifying our discussions with Germany,” a wide range of regions, “he told reporters.
Germany is Canada’s largest export market in Europe and both have jointly promised $ 600 million to export Canadian hydrogen to Europe, through an agreement signed in August 2022.
There was no Canadian ambassador to Berlin since the death of former BC politician John Horgan in November 2023.
Carney is expected to wrap the journey by meeting the Latvian Prime Minister Equika Silia on Wednesday and paying the journey of Canadian soldiers posted in the country.
Since 2017, Canada has led a multinational NATO war group in Latvia, as part of the efforts of the military alliance as part of the efforts to strengthen their eastern flanks and respond to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
The Latvian mission is one of the eight warfare installed by NATO in Eastern Europe, in which some people refer as “tripwire” to prevent Moscow from attacking.
The first four were installed in Crimea in 2017 – three years after Russia’s first Ukrainian invasion in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. After a comprehensive 2022 Russian invasion, a war group in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia was also established.
In Riga, Operation Assurance includes more than a dozen NATO personnel and is less than 300 kilometers from the Russian border.
The senior official said that 1,900 members of the Canadian Armed Forces are posted in Latvia, the largest foreign mission of the Canadian armed forces.
Marcus Kolga, a senior companion at the McDonald-Lariers Institute, said that Mission is important for Canada.
“This is probably one of the most important international missions that we have been engaged in the Second World War since the liberation of the Netherlands,” he said.
He said, “This allows them to live their lives in general, even if this danger is correct at their door,” he said, this added to Latvian people as well as neighboring Estonians and Lithuanians.
“It indicates that Canada is active and will not be pushed around by Vladimir Putin,” he said.
Europe’s visit to Europe comes against the backdrop of efforts to intensify efforts to broker a peace in Ukraine’s war with Russia. Earlier this month, Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, a few days later a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski and other European leaders at the White House.
A member of the Canada alliance is, a group of member states promised to support Ukraine in the war against Russia. Carney has participated in the groups’ virtual meetings of the group in recent weeks, but there is no confirmation about it yet if there is a ceasefire deal then what a Canada will play to help maintain peace.
– Dylan in Ottawa with Robertson’s files
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 23 August 2025.
Craig Lord, Canadian Press