{"id":732685,"date":"2026-06-12T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:17:09","slug":"carney-announces-agreement-with-france-to-share-sensitive-defence-ai-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732685\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney announces agreement with France to share sensitive defence, AI information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and France will deepen their defence and industrial co-operation through a new general security of information agreement. <\/p>\n<p>Carney says the agreement will facilitate the exchange of classified intelligence related to the defence, space, artificial intelligence and aerospace sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Carney made the comments in a joint statement alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l&#8217;\u00c9lys\u00e9e in Paris on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Macron said he and Carney will discuss trade, defence and security in their closed-door meeting, and he hailed Canada as a  friend to Europe and France. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which comes ahead of next week&#8217;s G7 summit, could be one of the last between the two world leaders, since Macron&#8217;s second term in office is set to end next spring. <\/p>\n<p>France, which is hosting the summit this year, says the priorities include settling major geopolitical crises, G7 support for Ukraine and protecting children online.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-732685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}