Canada, Mexico Launch Action Plan on Trade, Energy, Security
![“Here in Mexico City, President @ClaudiaShein [pictured right] and I met with business leaders from across Canada and Mexico,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada wrote in a Sept. 18 social media post. “We’re elevating our partnership and delivering the certainty that businesses need to invest—and building opportunities for workers in both our nations.” (Photograph Courtesy of Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada)](https://www.v2.railwayage.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/canadamexico.png.avif)
“With the Canada-Mexico Action Plan 2025-2028, our countries will drive progress in strategic areas, particularly in shared prosperity, security, inclusion, and sustainability—advanced by frequent meetings at the leader and ministerial levels,” according to the Canadian government.
It said that the key areas of co-operation include:
- “Prioritizing the development of long-term infrastructure, including ports, rail, and energy corridors.
- “Creating a new bilateral security dialogue to disrupt transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, and cybercrime.
- “Building more opportunities for trade and investment—from energy and infrastructure to critical minerals and agriculture.
- “Reinforcing climate and conservation co-operation to protect wildlife and freshwater systems.”
As part of a joint statement, Prime Minister Carney and President Sheinbaum said they “reaffirm their commitment to dynamic and forward-looking collaboration” and “recognize the shared benefits of a competitive, dynamic and resilient North American region.” To this end, they both expressed “their commitment to strengthen the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and the bilateral commercial relationship, after more than 30 years of successful trilateral free trade.” Moreover, they said they “recognize how sport can unite nations and inspire a more just and equitable world” and “will celebrate the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, a historic opportunity to showcase the principles, diversity and shared values that bind the three countries of Canada, Mexico and the United States.” The World Cup, to be held June 11-July 19, is slated to bring together 48 countries for 104 games across 16 cities.
According to the Canadian government, Prime Minister Carney announced a new forthcoming trade mission to Mexico, led by Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade, and One Canadian Economy, and C$9.9 million in funding for United Nations-led projects “to support migrant integration initiatives in Mexico and combat the illicit production and trafficking of fentanyl.”
Carney also announced that as Canada, Mexico, and the United States prepare to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Adam van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport), will serve as Canada’s FIFA Sherpa. Van Koeverden will work with his U.S. and Mexican counterparts “to ensure a successful experience for spectators.” Canada will host 13 matches, including seven in Vancouver, British Columbia, and six in Toronto, Ontario. The World Cup is projected to create more than 24,000 jobs and add C$2 billion to the Canadian economy, boosting tourism, small businesses, hotels, and local communities, according to the Canadian government.
“Canada and Mexico are entering a new era of co-operation,” Carney said in a statement. “We are elevating our partnerships in trade, investment, energy, and security to create more opportunity for Canadian workers, expanded markets for Canadian businesses, and more certainty for Canadian investors, while making North America the most competitive and dynamic economic region in the world.”
Meanwhile, on Sept. 19 in Mexico City, Canadian Pacific Kansas City President and CEO Keith Creel hosted Mark Carney at a grain terminal where a unit train carrying Canada Western Red Spring Wheat grown and harvested in Manitoba had recently arrived. In a social media post, the railroad called it “one example of the expanded trade options open to Western Canadian grain customers and other exporters in Canada and the United States looking to diversify their end markets,” and noted that its trains “move a variety of Canadian grains to Mexico, including wheat, oats, canola oils and specialty crops.”
