Mexican President Sheinbaum to Attend G7 Summit in Canada

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attends her morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, on April 2, 2025. Marco Ugarte, File/AP Photo

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she will be attending the upcoming G7 Leaders Summit in Canada held in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17.

Sheinbaum made the announcement during a press conference on June 9, adding that Mexico’s foreign affairs minister is working on setting up bilateral meetings and that it is “likely” a meeting will also take place with U.S. President Donald Trump.

On May 28 Sheinbaum said Prime Minister Mark Carney had invited her to the summit during their initial phone conversation on May 15 but that she hadn’t decided whether to attend. Sheinbaum also said at the time that her invitation could involve a meeting with Trump.

The G7 is made up of the seven developed economies of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan, as well as the European Union as a non-enumerated member. Russia was a member of what was the G8 from 1997 until 2014, when it was removed over its invasion and annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto have all been invited to the upcoming G7 summit, and all have said they will attend.

Canada has also invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has attended the summit for the last five years. Canada’s invitation to the Indian leader comes at a time of recent tensions between the two countries. Modi has said he will attend.

Canada has also invited Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend the summit, but the two have not confirmed whether they will be attending.

US-Mexico Relations

The potential upcoming meeting between Mexico’s Sheinbaum and Trump comes as the United States expands its crackdown on illegal immigration across the country and heated protests are taking place in Los Angeles.

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids on several Los Angeles-area sites and arrested 44 illegal immigrants on June 6, leading to protests that escalated into clashes with police. Nearly 40 percent of California’s population has Hispanic ancestry, and many protesters have been seen waving Mexican flags.

The Trump administration has activated National Guard troops to deploy in the city to respond to the protests, a move which has been opposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In May, Sheinbaum said her country would respond to any taxes on remittances sent home to Mexico by immigrants in the United States to Mexico, and that “if necessary, we’ll mobilize.” The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, currently making its way through the U.S. Senate, contains a clause on taxing remittances from non-citizens of the United States at 3.5 percent.

Tensions between the United States and Mexico rose earlier in the year when the United States renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Sheinbaum announced a lawsuit against Google on May 9 over its decision to follow Trump’s executive order and change the name of the body of water to Gulf of America on Google Maps.

However, Trump has repeatedly spoken positively about Sheinbaum, referring to her as a “wonderful woman” and saying the two have a “very good” relationship.

Both Canada and Mexico have been subject to tariffs from the United States, with Trump citing concerns around illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States from the two countries as the reason for his initial round of tariffs on the two countries.

In May, Trump said that Sheinbaum refused his offer to send soldiers to her country to fight against drug cartels. Sheinbaum said her country’s sovereignty was “not for sale.”