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PM Mark Carney meets with Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm in Ottawa – September 24, 2026

📅 Sep 24, 2026 cpac 13 MIN 108649 VIEWS 8 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
Prime Minister Mark Carney participates in a welcome ceremony on Parliament Hill for Tô Lâm, the Vietnamese president and general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The two leaders then sit down for a meeting.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Vietnamese General Secretary Tô Lâm to Ottawa on September 24, 2026, calling the visit historic and timely for both economies. Carney noted that Canada-Vietnam trade has more than doubled in the past five years. He announced that agreements would be struck in energy, clean energy, conventional energy, agriculture, defense cooperation, and people-to-people ties, including direct flights between Canada and Vietnam. Carney praised Lâm's regional leadership, including within the CPTPP this year, as ASEAN chair next year, and as APEC chair in 2030. In response, Lâm proposed upgrading the bilateral relationship from a comprehensive strategic partnership to a strategic level, citing over 50 years of diplomatic relations and 10 years of the current partnership. Lâm emphasized cooperation in multilateral forums including the UN, APEC, Francophonie, CPTPP, and ASEAN-led forums.

Key takeaways

  1. Direct flights between Canada and Vietnam will be established.
  2. Vietnam proposed upgrading the bilateral relationship to a strategic level.
  3. Vietnam will chair ASEAN next year and APEC in 2030.

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2030 year Vietnam chairs APEC timeline 7:23
Mark Carney 7:23 ↗
Mr. Secretary General, it is a great honor. This is a historic visit at a crucial time for our economies and for the world, as you underscored in your speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue. Now, for Canadians, I want to underscore the depths of the relationship and how fast the relationship is changing in the past five years. Our trade has more than doubled between our two countries.
We will strike agreements on a number of areas today: in energy, clean energy, conventional energy, agriculture, defense cooperation, people-to-people ties, crucially. There'll be good news for those who want to travel directly from Canada to Vietnam and back from Vietnam, but of course deeper cultural ties will come as well. It's an important time for both of us.
The General Secretary's leadership in the region, leadership within the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement this year, leadership next year as chair of ASEAN, leadership as chair in 2030 of APEC. Canada will be working alongside together to advance our mutual interest and also to advance peace, security, and prosperity in Asia and across the world.

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Carney, M. (2026, September 24). PM Mark Carney meets with Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm in Ottawa – September 24, 2026 [Interview transcript]. cpac. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2956360/

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Mark Carney. "PM Mark Carney meets with Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm in Ottawa – September 24, 2026." cpac, 24 Sep. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2956360/.

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@misc{carney2026_2956360,
  author       = {Mark Carney},
  title        = {PM Mark Carney meets with Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm in Ottawa – September 24, 2026},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, cpac. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {sep},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2956360/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}