Next week, from May 11 to 13, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, will attend the meeting of G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Niigata, Japan.
At this meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister and Canada's G7 partners will discuss how we can work together to friendshore our economies to grow our clean economies and increase our shared economic and energy security. Other topics will include fighting climate change, increasing tax fairness, supporting vulnerable economies, and holding Russia accountable for Putin's illegal and barbaric full-scale invasion of Ukraine while supporting Ukraine's economic resilience and reconstruction.
An itinerary of events will be released in advance of the meeting.