New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has embarked on official trips to France and the United Kingdom, and is set to visit Canada's Arctic territory of Nunavut.
Nunavut is a vast northern territory in which well over 80 per cent of the population is Inuit.
Mr Carney, who was sworn in a prime minister on Friday, travelled to Paris and London Sunday and Monday ahead of visiting Nunavut on Tuesday.
The trip aimed "to strengthen two of our closest and longest-standing economic and security partnerships, and to reaffirm Canada's Arctic security and sovereignty", his office said on Saturday.
In Paris, the Prime Minister met French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss strengthening economic, commercial and defence ties as well as discuss artificial intelligence.
In London, Mr Carney and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed strengthening transatlantic security as well as bilateral trade and the commercial relationship between the two countries.
The Canadian Prime Minister will then travel to Iqaluit, Nunavut, on Tuesday.
He will meet with members of the Iqaluit Patrol of 1 Canadian Rangers Patrol Group – a group critical to Arctic stability and security.
Mr Carney will also meet with the Premier of Nunavut, P.J. Akeeagok, to learn more about the evolving needs and priorities of Arctic and Northern communities.
He will reaffirm the new government's support for growing a stronger economy across the North, reinforcing its sovereignty and security, and emphasising the "continued commitment to advancing reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis throughout the country".
Nunavut is a sparsely populated Canadian territory which encompasses over two million square kilometres and forms most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
"Canada was built upon a union of peoples - Indigenous, French, and British," Mr Carney said before the visit.
"My visit to Nunavut will be an opportunity to bolster Canada's Arctic sovereignty and security, and our plan to unlock the North's full economic potential."
Mr Carney's visit comes amid increasingly erratic and hostile rhetoric from US President Donald Trump, who has vowed to seize Greenland and expand US influence in the Arctic.
Mr Trump has also repeatedly suggested the United States annex Canada, and referred to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "Governor Trudeau", the title used by the heads of US states.
