A Message from the 2025 B7 Chair

The 2025 B7 Summit was a powerful reminder that businesses are not bystanders in the global economic agenda — they are key architects of a secure, resilient and sustainable future. As the unified voice of the G7 business community, the B7 is uniquely positioned to offer pragmatic solutions to economic challenges that transcend domestic agendas.

The positive influence businesses have on communities large and small is the bedrock thinking that should inform economic policy. But businesses need a predictable and reliable environment to succeed. Unfortunately, that is not the environment we find ourselves in today.

Over the past three days, leaders from across the G7 business community came together in Ottawa to confront the forces that are reshaping economies and undermining the security and stability that citizens and businesses alike depend on. Our conclusion was clear: we must move beyond the status quo.

As the B7, we responded to recent trade realignments, resource vulnerabilities and disruptive technologies with a unified voice and a focused agenda centred around this year’s theme, “Bolstering Economic Security and Resilience.”

The official B7 2025 Communiqué, built off the work done in past years, reflects the discussions from the Summit and months of collaboration. It identifies global trade, critical minerals, regulatory reform, energy security, and AI adoption as the pillars of a stronger, resilient economic future.  

Canada has both a responsibility and an opportunity to do our part here at home. To build our economic security and sovereignty through smart policy — not only to create a better life for all Canadians but to help our partners do the same within their communities.

• Candace Laing, President and CEO, Canadian Chamber of Commerce

About the B7 and the B7 Summit

The B7 Summit convenes 300+ senior business leaders, policymakers, government officials and industry experts from G7 nations to discuss global economic challenges and advance policy solutions that drive economic growth and stability.

The Business 7 (B7) is the most significant and recognized of the G7 Engagement Groups, representing the interests of the business community across G7 nations. It plays a critical role in developing actionable policy proposals for G7 leaders, ensuring business perspectives drive economic policymaking.

This year, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce will lead the B7 presidency, aligning with Canada’s G7 presidency, to shape discussions on economic security, resilience and innovation.

About the Canadian Chamber of Commerce — The Future of Business Success 

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is Canada’s largest and most activated business network — representing over 400 chambers of commerce and boards of trade and more than 200,000 business of all sizes, from all sectors of the economy and from every part of the country — working to create the conditions for our collective success. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the undisputed champion and catalyst for the future of business success. From working with government on economy-friendly policy to providing services that inform commerce and enable trade, we give each of our members more of what they need to succeed: insight into markets, competitors and trends, influence over the decisions and policies that drive business success, and impact on business and economic performance.   

Media Contact

Shane Mackenzie
Vice President, Media and Stakeholder Communications
613.302.7683
smackenzie@chamber.ca