Canada-Mexico

Prime Minister Carney announces new partnership with Mexico to elevate ties across trade, energy, and security
September 18, 2025
Mexico City, Mexico
The close and long-standing relationship between Canada and Mexico has created greater certainty, security, and prosperity for both nations. Now, as the world order changes rapidly, Canada and Mexico are elevating this partnership.
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, alongside the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, launched a new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to deepen ties between our countries and make North America the most competitive, dynamic, and resilient economic region in the world.
With the Canada-Mexico Action Plan as our roadmap, 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.
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.
Canada-Mexico Action Plan 2025-2028
Canada and Mexico share over 81 years of diplomatic relations, 31 years of free trade and 21 years of cooperation under the Canada-Mexico Partnership. A resilient and forward-looking bilateral relationship depends on strong, sustained engagement between both governments. As such, cooperation between both countries will now be elevated and reforged into the Canada-Mexico Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

28 February
Any port in a storm
In Puerto Vallarta, caught in a war with cartels, Mexicans and tourists – including Canadians – learn to watch their step
(Globe & Mail) Before last Sunday’s violence, the tranquil beach town was perceived as one of the safest cities in Mexico. With its cobblestone streets, welcoming restaurants and friendly people, it has for decades been a popular destination for tourists and, for many Mexicans, a good place to live.
Canadians who have been coming here for years and residents alike say they’ve never seen anything like the kind of destruction that was unleased by drug cartel thugs when their leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was killed in a shootout with Mexican special forces.

26 February
Canada’s Mexico Mission: Moving from Agenda-Setting to Action
By Shauna Hemingway
(Policy) Canada has changed its paradigm with Mexico in the wake of the largest Canadian trade mission that government and business have undertaken together – anywhere in the world – in decades. The timing, just months ahead of a key deadline in the USMCA review process, is no coincidence.
Mexico was abuzz with talk of building a bilateral trade “corridor” as nearly 400 Canadian business leaders and more than 240 companies and trade organizations launched a three-city tour in the country last week, led by three federal ministers, four parliamentary secretaries and two provincial ministers. Equal numbers of Mexican politicians, officials and industry heads joined the fanfare with renewed hope that this time Canada was serious about strengthening bilateral engagement.
The cheers and applause that met Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s statement that “Mexico is a very reliable trade partner for Canada” underscored how far political discourse has shifted since late 2024. The echo of calls by some Canadian political figures to exclude Mexico from North American trade talks seems finally to have faded into the background.
With this shift, the Canada-Mexico pillar within North America is poised to play an influential role in shaping our trilateral future, provided both countries act strategically and together. The challenge before government and business in both countries will be to grow this momentum while avoiding the drift that distractions from Washington tend to encourage.
To guide this next phase, Canada and Mexico need to move on from agenda-setting to an ambitious and standalone strategy for each other that centres on an optimistic vision for North America. While last fall’s Canada–Mexico Action Plan 2025–2028 brought leaders, ministers and officials together, the moment now calls for decisive action and results that include the private sector.

15-20 February
Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico
The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy, will lead a Team Canada Trade Mission (TCTM) to Mexico. This trade mission builds on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the country, in September 2025, where he announced a new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to deepen ties between Canada and Mexico and make North America the most competitive, dynamic, and resilient economic region in the world. It is an important step in the government’s commitment to diversify and strengthen trade relationships with reliable partners and advances shared goals under the Canada-Mexico Action Plan. This trade mission will help Canadian exporters, businesses and innovators position themselves in the important and growing Mexican market by showcasing their capabilities and competitiveness while facilitating long-term, diversified trade and investment opportunities.
25 February
Strengthening Canada–Mexico Trade at a Pivotal Moment: A Recap of our Mission to Mexico City
A focused, forward-looking delegation to Mexico City centred on the future of CUSMA and the Canada–Mexico economic relationship.
Canadian Chamber of Commerce:
As we look ahead to the 2026 CUSMA Review, one fact stands out. Mexico is Canada’s third-largest trading partner, yet it accounts for just 1.1% of our exports. After more than 30 years of continental free trade — first under NAFTA and now CUSMA — there remains significant untapped potential between our two countries.
Over three days, our delegation engaged directly with Mexican government officials, industry leaders and business counterparts. Highlights included a business roundtable hosted by Holland & Knight LLP, discussions with the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), a visit to the Mexican Senate, and the Mexico–Canada Business Forum hosted at Scotiabank’s headquarters.
Solar firm Solfium discusses Mexican market and new opportunities for Canadians
Andres Friedman, CEO and co-founder of solar firm Solfium, says Mexico has ‘very strong industries’ that could appeal to Canadian businesses.

13 February
(Politico Canada Playbook) — Canada-U.S. Trade Minister DOMINIC LEBLANC will lead Canada’s largest trade mission to Mexico on Sunday. It’s part of Ottawa’s push to deepen economic ties with the country and diversify trade beyond the U.S.
LeBlanc will lead a delegation that includes around 240 organizations and more than 400 people.
— Along for the ride: Agriculture Minister HEATH MACDONALD, Culture Minister MARC MILLER and parliamentary secretaries DAVID MYLES, RACHEL BENDAYAN, ALI EHSASSI and TIM LOUIS.
— Welcome back: The mission builds on the PM’s September visit and the launch of a new Canada–Mexico Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. LeBlanc was in Mexico in December and Governor General MARY SIMON visited in January.
The delegation brings together business leaders from creative industries, manufacturing, agriculture, clean technology and energy, and IT to explore new opportunities in Mexico.
— Stops include: Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.

8 January
Canada-Mexico Action Plan 2025-2028 (Update)
A resilient and forward-looking bilateral relationship depends on strong, sustained engagement between both governments. As such, cooperation between both countries will now be elevated and reforged into the Canada-Mexico Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
In the context of this new elevated relationship, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, and the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, present the Canada-Mexico Action Plan 2025-2028, which will serve as the roadmap to identify priorities and guide strategic actions for the bilateral relationship. The new Canada-Mexico Action Plan is structured around four strategic pillars—Prosperity; Mobility, Inclusivity and Well-being; Security; and Environment and Sustainability—reflecting the shared priorities that will shape a forward-looking, resilient, and dynamic bilateral relationship.

2025

10 December
Canadian creative industries join the Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico
Under the Creative Export Strategy, the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) is pleased to partner with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to offer a tailored creative industries business program as part of the Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico,