The high-profile meeting between Canadian PM Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alb. is underway. Livestream here. These are the second set of in-person talks between the two leaders, and come on a day of extremely high geopolitical tension with Iran and Israel continuing to pummel one another with airstrikes.
- Jennifer Jacobs at CBS News reports that Trump is not set to sign the G7 statement on Israel-Iran according to unnamed US officials. Jacobs claims that "The document talks about monitoring Iran, calls for both sides to protect civilians, and reups commitments to peace," Alayna Treene at CNN: "The statement also says Israel has a right to defend itself and states Iran can never have a nuclear weapon"
- While this decision is unlikely to change anything on the ground in the short term (airstrikes on both countries continue apace, Israel have seemingly struck the Iranian state TV station in the past few minutes), the lack of an agreement on such a pressing concern does not bode well for the G7 nations being able to reach agreement on other controversial topics such as trade, or the war in Ukraine.