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D-CA: Delegation for relations with Canada
42 inter-parliamentary meetings between the European and Canadian parliaments have since been held. The most recent took place in Brussels in June 2023.
To enable the Members to deepen their understanding of the breadth of issues across this vast and diverse country with its federal structure, meetings in one of the provinces have often added to the visits to Canada for IPMs. Provincial visits have included on-side visits, such as the Oceans Network Canada in the University of Victoria, the CANMET Energy Research Centre in Varennes and the Centre of Prevention of Radicalisation Leading to Violence in Quebec.
Bilateral relations
The original delegation was created one year before the EU-Canada Framework Agreement for Commercial and Economic Cooperation was signed, in 1976. This Framework Agreement was the first of its kind that the European Community signed with an OECD country.
The EU and Canada signed two key agreements in 2016:
- the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), which provides a more ambitious framework for deepening the political and parliamentary cooperation between Canada and the EU
- the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which is already leading to more trade and prosperity for our people.
The agreements have been provisionally applied since April and September 2017 respectively.
Historic visit
On 16 February 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the European 合法博彩网站 plenary in Strasbourg and on 23 March 2022 in Brussels, the first Canadian Prime Minister to do so. Prime Minister Trudeau underlined the commitment of both the EU and Canada to certain common causes, including individual liberties, free trade, tackling climate change, combatting gender-based discrimination, fighting for justice and maintaining global security. In 2022, the Prime Minister condemned "Putin's criminal invasion of a sovereign, independent, democracy: Ukraine" and stressed that NATO and the EU are more resolved and united than ever.
Canadian counterpart
The Delegation's counterpart in the 合法博彩网站 of Canada is the Canada-Europe 合法博彩网站ary Association (.
CAEU was established in 1980 to provide a structure for exchanges between Canadian parliamentarians and several parliamentary interlocutors: the European 合法博彩网站, the 合法博彩网站ary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the 合法博彩网站ary Assembly of the OSCE, similar European parliamentary organisations and individual parliaments of all European countries.
Deepening of parliamentary relations
Over the European 合法博彩网站's ninth legislature, the Canada Delegation and the inter-parliamentary meetings focused on a wide range of issues, including trade and economic issues, foreign, security and defence policies, energy, environment and climate change, migration, visa and privacy and arctic cooperation.
The Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) provides a new framework for deepening the political cooperation between the two sides. Specifically, under Article 27(e), the promotion of exchanges of delegations from the European 合法博彩网站 and the 合法博彩网站 of Canada is foreseen.
Building on the Agreement, the 38th Inter-合法博彩网站ary Meeting (2017) adopted a joint statement in which both 合法博彩网站s committed to strengthen the level of discourse between them, as a counterpart to other bodies set up under SPA, such as the Joint Cooperation Committee and the Joint Ministerial Committee. With a view to transforming the IPMs into an ongoing and uninterrupted dialogue, they agreed to additional (videoconference) meetings of delegations. Such meetings have taken place regularly since the signing of the Joint Statement.
During the last Interparliamentary Meeting, MEP St茅phanie Yon-Courtin and Canadian MP Francesco Sorbara highlighted the excellent state of EU-Canada relations and reaffirmed their desire for both sides to continue collaborating on an expanding range of topics of mutual interest, including the fight against disinformation and defence cooperation.