Friday November 14, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC [Posted 4:50 pm PT | Updated November 15, 2025]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Canada’s premiers will have a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Carney on Monday.
Council of the Federation (COF) Chair Rob Lantz Chair (Premier of Prince Edward Island) says that the premiers look forward to an upcoming First Ministers Meeting (FMM) to support discussion on matters of shared importance:
- the need for adequate, flexible federal infrastructure investment;
- PT positions on their respective major projects;
- the state of relations and negotiations between Canada and the United States; and
- international trade relations with China and India.
The premiers laid out their priorities in a letter dated November 11, 2025.
The virtual meeting will be the latest in a series of meetings between the premiers and Carney since he became prime minister earlier this year.
In particular, the overriding urgency for this meeting seems to be in the context of Canada’s relationship with the United States that continues to change, even since the last meeting in July.
Notably, US President Trump suspended trade talks with Carney after Ontario Premier Doug Ford ran a TV commercial (from about October 27 to November 3 including during the baseball World Series) pointing out how former Republican US President Ronald Reagan said he was against the use of tariffs except in the most judicious of circumstances.
Obviously a lot of what negotiations that might be happening behind the scenes would normally not be shared in the public domain. Meanwhile, premiers of the provinces and territories want to be kept in the loop on the Canada-US dynamics of affairs.
“This transformation will best occur and will maximize the opportunities and benefits for all Canadians when First Ministers are working collaboratively,” says the Premiers in their letter as to the Carney government’s intended largest transformation of the economy since the Second World War.
Past issues:
Things like increasing the Canad Health Transfer (funds from the federal government to provincial governments) used to headline the Council of the Federation meetings with the prime minister of the days.
Inter-provincial trade has been a topic for decades, something that is only now getting attention due to the necessary shift in how Canada’s economy needs to build resilience against a dependence on exports to the United States.
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