Monday August 25, 2025 | NATIONAL NEWS [Posted at 9:35 am PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Prime Minister Mark Carney will arrived in Warsaw, Poland today for a series of meetings with elected officials and economic leaders to strengthen economic and military defence ties between Canada and Poland.
This morning the prime minister’s office released a readout of his meetings with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his meeting with Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki.
The meetings today were intended to reaffirm the close and enduring friendship between the two nations and to announce a renewed long-term strategic partnership that will guide and deepen bilateral cooperation in the years ahead.
Meeting with Tusk:
- Prime ministers Carney and Tusk affirmed the strong bilateral relationship between Canada and Poland and discussed enhancing collaboration in defence, energy, and aerospace.
- Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Tusk underscored their shared commitment to supporting regional security on NATO’s Eastern Flank.
- The leaders reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion and welcomed the United States’ openness to providing security guarantees to support long-term peace and security for Ukraine and Europe. The leaders emphasized the need for robust and credible security guarantees and for continued pressure on Russia. Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Tusk underscored that no decisions about Ukraine should be made without Ukraine, and no decisions about Europe without Europe.
Meeting with Nawrocki:
- Prime Minister Carney and President Nawrocki discussed their countries’ efforts to deepen trade, defence, and security ties through the enhanced Canada-Poland strategic partnership, announced earlier today in Warsaw. The leaders reaffirmed their shared commitment to regional security and welcomed ongoing co-operation on defence, including through NATO.
- The leaders reiterated their ongoing support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion and welcomed the United States’ openness to providing security guarantees that would help support long-term peace and security for Ukraine and Europe.
Joint statement:
There was also a statement from the PMO about a shared Canada-Poland strategy.
The intended stronger economic partnership was detailed in areas of energy, defence, aviation and trade-related cooperation.
Enhanced security and defence cooperation will be comprised of attention to Ukraine, maritime security, cybersecurity, foreign information manipulation and interference, intelligence, military cooperation, interoperability, evolving security threats, and border security.
High-level steering group:
As was stated in the joint statement, to operationalize the enhanced strategic partnership, Canada and Poland will initiate annual bilateral consultations between government officials.
A High-Level Steering Group on Bilateral Cooperation will be established at senior official level, with participation from relevant departments and ministries. This group, co-chaired by the foreign ministries and comprising key ministries from both countries, will oversee the implementation of mutually determined deliverables and report progress annually to their ministers and to both Heads of Government.
Bilateral cooperation may also result in the signing of respective memoranda of understanding in the future.
Poland in Europe:
In the continental European region, Poland has the third largest military contingent after the US and Turkey.
Canada has nearly one million Canadians of Polish heritage.
The political strategy of The Coalition of the Willing and western democracies overall is to continue curtailing the fossil fuel energy economy of Russia as part of supporting Ukraine to win the Russian war invasion in into their country.
Started this week’s meetings in Ukraine:
Carney was in Ukraine yesterday on their 34th anniversary of independence from the USSR, delivering more details about how Canada’s “additional $2 billion” will be spent on military defence for Ukraine.
This is part of a mission since being elected in April to show (the US in particular) how Canada will meet the 2% NATO target by the end of March 2026.
Last week, US President Trump met with Ukraine President Zelenskyy and European leaders in Washington.
National projects in Canada:
Carney mentioned last week (August 22 in Ottawa) that he would soon be announcing national economic development projects to support the domestic economy in Canada. It’s about moving Canada “from reliance to resilience”.
Key sectors for those projects include energy, critical minerals, ports and agriculture.
Here in BC, the LNG Canada facility at Kitimat is already shipping LNG to countries across the Pacific.
Tomorrow, a major new federal investment in an emission-reducing project for Metro Vancouver is scheduled to be announced in Vancouver.
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