Joint Statement Announcing the Canada-Germany Digital Alliance

Joint statement issued by Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, the Honourable Evan Solomon, and Germany's Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization, Karsten Wildberger, following their meeting on the margins of the G7 Industry, Digital and Technology Ministers' Meeting in Montréal, Quebec, on December 8, 2025. The ministers reaffirmed the longstanding partnership between Canada and Germany — including collaboration through multilateral fora such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and the G7 — and agreed to advance a Canada-Germany Digital Alliance, a joint partnership focused on concrete collaboration in areas of mutual interest: artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty, digital infrastructure, quantum, and cooperation on startups and the digital economy. Among the Alliance's first deliverables, both sides agreed to finalize a Joint Declaration of Intent (JDoI) on AI in the coming months. Potential areas of cooperation identified under the JDoI include: building and deploying compute infrastructure; exchange on policy development and interoperability; research and commercialization; AI adoption with a focus on physical and industrial AI; AI safety; development and adoption of generative and frontier AI; talent attraction and mobility; and business engagement and entrepreneurship. Both sides agreed to assign key contacts to develop a workplan under the Alliance. The Digital Alliance is the foundation on which Canada and Germany subsequently signed the Joint Declaration of Intent on AI and launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance at the Munich Security Conference in February 2026.