Prime Minister Carney delivers remarks on the Canada-Norway partnership

Welcome, Prime Minister. Dear Jonas, it is a great honor to host you in Canada and to begin, and I can only begin to return the hospitality that you showed me in Norway last March. Um I would first like to reaffirm, though, uh my condolences, my personal condolences, and those of the Canadian people to the people of Norway on the passing of King Harald V. Uh You gave me the honor of meeting him uh and the new king. Um King Harald was a unifying and a truly inspirational uh figure, and I'm confident that uh his legacy will continue uh to be built upon for generations. About of us, uh we reviewed uh Canadian Armed Forces, I was particularly paying attention to the Canadian Armed Forces uh personnel alongside their Norwegian, German, and other counterparts. That cooperation, this cooperation we saw there, uh continues with our coast guards now training together in Canadian and Norwegian uh waters, a series of efforts to improve across all our capacities, our interoperability, um and strengthening them alongside each other. Our cooperation uh since we met in Norway has also led to the start of an unprecedented reinforcement of Canada's maritime capabilities. In the largest defense procurement in Canadian history, TKMS will build Canada's next fleet of submarines and in the process, do much more. Uh in the process, deepen our military, industrial, and technological cooperation between Norway, Canada, and Germany. Cooperation, I'll say to Canadians, that will yield tens of billions of dollars in new investment in every region of this country, creating an ecosystem uh that will create more than 100,000 high-paying Canadian jobs. So, that's the start of what we had earlier this year. We're building on that momentum today. Uh deepening our cooperation, for example, in Arctic science and research, developing a joint research agenda roadmap on climate data, research security, knowledge sharing. As part of this initiative, Polar Knowledge Canada and Norwegian Polar Institute are developing an agreement on both Arctic and Antarctic research. On defense, uh we we will be, once the submarine contract is concluded, we'll pursue an enhanced defense cooperation agreement at the level, this is the way Canada views it, at the level of our closest security partners, because that's what we are. This will advance advance our military, industrial, and technological cooperation, bringing together what in many cases are unique capabilities uh for the purpose of our collective security and prosperity. On space, our space agencies have finalized a new memorandum of understanding to improve coordination and information sharing advanced space-based technologies, including, again, you guessed it, to reinforce Arctic uh security in the Arctic and the high north. In parallel, Norway's Kongsberg uh is partnering with Canada's MDA space and Telesat to help us better track in Arctic waters and improve secure communications in the high north. And on critical minerals, we're moving from our agreement in March to launch new geo-mapping geoscience projects combining data and expertise to identify critical mineral potential and move towards production. And finally, on ocean conservation, we're strengthening our ocean observation systems and the supporting infrastructure to improve forecasting, early warning, and of course to protect our oceans and marine life. And in New York in a few days through the Ocean Eye International Alliance, we'll continue to advance sustained ocean observation and protection. And all Merci d'être ici.