{"id":776437,"date":"2026-07-02T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776437\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:37:08","slug":"canada-philippines-sign-sectoral-agreements-during-marcos-visit-to-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776437\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Philippines sign sectoral agreements during Marcos visit to Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vina Nadjibulla of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada says PM Carney welcoming Philippine President Bongbong Marcos is a \u2018major milestone.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canada and the Philippines signed agreements Thursday on energy, natural resources, labour and tourism, during a high-level visit in Vancouver. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Canada, in the first visit of the country\u2019s head of state in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carney says Filipino-Canadians are \u201cat the very heart\u201d of Canada, and both countries can benefit in energy security and critical minerals through a strategic partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Asia Pacific Foundation vice-president Vina Nadjibulla wrote in an analysis that the Marcos visit demonstrates Canada\u2019s four-year-old Indo-Pacific strategy is starting to yield results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She says Carney has visited leaders abroad, but having them come to Canada shows a real interest, particularly as the Philippines works with Ottawa on trade, maritime surveillance and energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada is currently negotiating a trade deal with both the Philippines and a broader bloc of southeast Asian nations, and Carney hopes to conclude those talks ahead of his visit to Manila in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vina Nadjibulla of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada says PM Carney welcoming Philippine President Bongbong Marcos is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[45,49,48,295,47,714,14237,55],"class_list":["post-776437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-national","tag-politics","tag-utilities","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776437","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=776437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}