{"id":790051,"date":"2026-07-09T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:43:10","slug":"canada-and-the-uk-join-forces-on-defence-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790051\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and the UK Join Forces on Defence Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trisha Matabalan, Philippine Canadian Inquirer<br \/>July 9, 2026<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-509160\" class=\"wp-image-509160 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/727904311_1331030995833645_8082709512991074503_n-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Mark Carney and Prime Minister Keir Starmer make short statements to the media, inside 10 Downing Street, London. 16 March 2026.Photo by Daniel Pereira&#10;Office of the Prime Minister of Canada\" width=\"740\" height=\"419\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-509160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy: Mark Carney\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>CANADA \u2013 On July 8, 2026, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, released a joint statement on defence financing along with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer. They emphasized their intention to work together even more closely as they develop their goals within the agreed upon mandates.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, they acknowledged the shared challenge they faced as partners on the defence front, as they \u201cscale defence industrial capacity, strengthen resilience, and support deterrence and defence.\u201d They also welcomed their allies\u2019 support in \u201cdeveloping multilateral approaches to defence financing and procurement\u201d, including the initiatives already in motion for security.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have high hopes that these initiatives will move to encourage further investment in defence, and that the efforts to support the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank as well as the Multilateral Defence Mechanism will bring forth more movement in the defense industrial capacity of the collective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trisha Matabalan, Philippine Canadian InquirerJuly 9, 2026 (Photo courtesy: Mark Carney\/Facebook) CANADA \u2013 On July 8, 2026, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,876,10758,16938,2659,44],"class_list":["post-790051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-headline","tag-keir-starmer","tag-mark-carney","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790051","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=790051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}