Canada is committing $82 million over five years to expand ocean observation and data collection, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Sept. 23.
The announcement, made on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, coincided with Canada becoming a party to the High Seas Treaty, a legally binding United Nations agreement aimed at conserving marine biodiversity and managing resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The agreement entered into force internationally in January 2026.
“Canada is an ocean nation. We have the world’s longest coastline as a consequence of that,” Carney said while speaking at the Sept. 23 launch of the OceanEye International Alliance, a global initiative to strengthen the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)….