Prime Minister Mark Carney and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met on the margins of the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara and announced negotiations toward a Canada-Germany Strategic Partnership Agreement. The readout says the agreement would consolidate cooperation on security and defence, technology, investment, supply chains and raw materials, energy, and space under one framework. Germany is Canada’s largest EU trading partner, with bilateral trade valued at over $34 billion. The leaders directed their foreign ministers to advance talks, aiming to finalise the agreement before year’s end.