{"id":113739,"date":"2026-07-02T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/113739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:51:17","slug":"canada-philippines-sign-sectoral-agreements-during-marcos-visit-to-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/113739\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Philippines sign sectoral agreements during Marcos visit to Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., centre, and First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos, left, before a meeting in Vancouver, on Thursday, July 2, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns – The Canadian Press <\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 Canada and the Philippines signed agreements today on energy, natural resources, labour and tourism, during a high-level visit in Vancouver. <\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Canada, in the first visit of the country’s head of state in more than a decade. <\/p>\n

Carney says Filipino-Canadians are “at the very heart” of Canada, and both countries can benefit in energy security and critical minerals through a strategic partnership. <\/p>\n

Asia Pacific Foundation vice-president Vina Nadjibulla wrote in an analysis that the Marcos visit demonstrates Canada’s four-year-old Indo-Pacific strategy is starting to yield results. <\/p>\n

She says Carney has visited leaders abroad, but having them come to Canada shows a real interest, particularly as the Philippines works with Ottawa on trade, maritime surveillance and energy. <\/p>\n

Canada is currently negotiating a trade deal with both the Philippines and a broader bloc of southeast Asian nations, and Carney hopes to conclude those talks ahead of his visit to Manila in November. <\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2026. <\/p>\n

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., centre, and First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos, left,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,39286,111,20369,39285,989],"class_list":["post-113739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada","tag-lady-louise-araneta-marcos","tag-mark-carney","tag-philippines","tag-president-ferdinand-marcos","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}