French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed their unified stance on the push for “strong multilateralism” after meeting in Ottawa yesterday, head of the G7 summit. In a joint statement, they pledged to “support a strong, responsible, transparent multilateralism to face the global challenges.”
Macon hailed the meeting as “an opportunity to talk about the relations between Canada and France that are going very well, but also to highlight the challenges that we are going to have around the G7 table, and to make sure we are aligned.”
The G7 meeting is set to be a confrontation between G6 versus the US on a range of issues, in particular, the US steel and aluminum tariffs on its closest allies. Trudeau said there will be ” frank and sometimes difficult discussions around the G7 table, particularly with the US president on tariffs.”
