Carney welcomes Iran-United States deal at G7 in Évian-les-Bains — Conflit
Mark Carney said Canada is happy with the progress made on the Iran-United States conflit while he was at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains on Monday, June 15, 2026. He told journalists on the tarmac in Ireland that he would use the summit to examine how Canada and other countries could help consolidate the announced agreement.
Carney said, “Le Canada est heureux du progrès qui a été fait.” The comment came after Donald Trump announced an agreement on Sunday, June 14, 2026, aimed at ending the conflict in Iran and after Trump said he had authorized the lifting of the American blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
Évian-les-Bains summit talks
Carney landed in Geneva on Monday afternoon, June 15, 2026, then traveled by helicopter to Évian-les-Bains. Jean-Paul Lemieux and Natalie Drouin were among the people who welcomed him at the airport, and Carney later met António Costa and Ursula von der Leyen before a working dinner devoted to geopolitical and economic issues.
That sequence put Canada’s position into the center of a G7 discussion that had already been shaped by the weekend announcement from the United States. Carney had also been in Paris on Friday, June 12, 2026, to meet Emmanuel Macron, and he met Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin during the weekend before traveling to western Ireland.
Strait of Hormuz reopening
The sharpest friction point remains the Strait of Hormuz. Trump later said the strait would not reopen before Friday, June 19, 2026, when the agreement is to be officially signed, leaving the move tied to a deadline rather than immediate relief.
The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom used a joint statement on Monday, June 15, 2026, to praise the United States and the Iranian government for what they called an “avancée diplomatique.” They said it was “essentiel” that detailed negotiations succeed and that the agreement be implemented rapidly and fully, and they called reopening the Strait of Hormuz “urgente.”
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
Those same leaders said freedom of navigation in the strait should be “inconditionnelle et sans restriction,” and they said they would play their part through a “mission strictement défensive et indépendante visant à rassurer le trafic commercial et à mener des opérations de déminage.” They also said, “L’Iran ne doit jamais se doter d’une arme nucléaire,” and added that they were ready to work with the United States, Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency toward that goal.
Carney also said the Middle East showed the need to make supply systems for raw materials more “résilients” to shocks caused by a conflict. For businesses and governments watching shipping, energy and commodity flows, the practical next step is whether the agreement’s detailed talks keep to the Friday, June 19, 2026 signing date and whether the Strait of Hormuz reopens on that timetable.
