{"id":20486,"date":"2026-04-26T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/20486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:23:35","slug":"canada-eyes-an-ambitious-new-partnership-with-britain-amid-trump-turmoil-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/20486\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada eyes an \u2018ambitious\u2019 new partnership with Britain amid Trump turmoil \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bCanadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson spent three days in London in October \u201cspeed dating\u201d in intense, rapid-fire talks with firms to line up critical minerals deals, Goodale said.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cNothing is off the table here,\u201d he added, noting it \u201cmay take a critical minerals framework agreement\u201d between Ottawa and London to ratchet up the speed of investment and deals being done.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe U.K. and Canada have \u201ca supply chain mapping program underway\u201d to pinpoint U.K. demand and match firms with suppliers in Canada, Oliver Richards, head of international critical minerals & mining at the U.K.\u2019s Department for Business and Trade, told the Critical Mineral Association UK<\/a>\u2019s annual conference early this month. \u201cWe want to then target that down to the areas where there’s a common interest and get investment into those projects going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daring on defense<\/p>\n

\u200bCarney and Starmer vowed to boost both nations\u2019 defense spending and procurement this year. They want to position the Canada-U.K. defense relationship for growth, not just in military operations but also in \u201cindustrial collaboration\u201d and defense innovation, according to their June outline<\/a> for the future relationship.<\/p>\n

\"\"Canada wants to explore how \u201cwe can not just participate, but contribute\u201d to the GCAP project, Goodale said, adding it wouldn\u2019t be a replacement for the U.S.-led fifth-generation F-35 but a \u201cprogression.\u201d | Ali Haider\/EPA<\/p>\n

\u200bAs part of the package, Canada \u201cis interested\u201d in the sixth-generation fighter jet Global Combat Air Programme the U.K. is building with Italy and Japan to take flight by 2035, Goodale said. \u201cObviously, no decisions have been taken at this stage,\u201d he added. \u201cBut this is something that we are actively engaged in examining in terms of Canada’s future acquisitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bCanada wants to explore how \u201cwe can not just participate, but contribute\u201d to the GCAP project, Goodale said, adding it wouldn\u2019t be a replacement for the U.S.-led fifth-generation F-35 but a \u201cprogression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bCanadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson spent three days in London in October \u201cspeed dating\u201d in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[439,10301,3289,6921,17,337,375,1871,10302,10303,1651,1887,1737,10304,6103,1492,3042,10305,383,5046,384,10306,111,736,435,509,1077,346,3266,394,399,400,401,3533,3297,403,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-20486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-beef","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-buildings","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-cptpp","15":"tag-defense","16":"tag-department-for-business-and-trade","17":"tag-drones","18":"tag-energy","19":"tag-exports","20":"tag-finance","21":"tag-gcap","22":"tag-growth","23":"tag-infrastructure","24":"tag-innovation","25":"tag-intelligence","26":"tag-investment","27":"tag-italy","28":"tag-japan","29":"tag-kemi-badenoch","30":"tag-mark-carney","31":"tag-military","32":"tag-mining","33":"tag-negotiations","34":"tag-parliament","35":"tag-procurement","36":"tag-research","37":"tag-rules-of-origin","38":"tag-supply-chains","39":"tag-tariffs","40":"tag-trade","41":"tag-uk","42":"tag-ukraine","43":"tag-united-kingdom","44":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486","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=20486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}