Officials aim to deepen cross-border collaboration to disrupt the lucrative drug trade and improve information exchange as part of broader efforts to combat transnational crime.

Ministers pledge to undermine the profits of global crime networks and strengthen cooperative efforts across borders.

Discussion covered migrant smuggling, intimidation of diaspora communities by authoritarian states, online counter-terrorism and violent extremist content, cybercrime, and internet-related child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Ministers reaffirm efforts to detect and disrupt illegal synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, alongside addressing migrant smuggling and diaspora intimidation, online terrorism content, cybercrime, and online child sexual abuse.

The G7 debate framed broader security challenges as including migrant smuggling, diaspora intimidation, online terrorist content, cybercrime, and online child exploitation.

Public Safety Minister highlighted a convergence of transnational crime with terrorism, cyberattacks, and migrant exploitation, calling for holistic, cross-agency coordination to connect the dots across enforcement lines.

He reiterated the need for cross-cutting collaboration to link efforts across different agencies in confronting integrated threats.

EU officials emphasized international data and information sharing to combat sophisticated, globally connected criminal networks, with a focus on drug trafficking.

Europe noted Canada’s approaches as a source of lessons for addressing evolving criminal networks.

The EU underscored that Canadian strategies offer valuable insights as criminal networks grow more sophisticated and transnational.

A 'follow-the-money' strategy was highlighted to target migrant smuggling through financial intelligence and information sharing, including sanctions and travel measures against facilitators.

Ministers supported voluntary industry efforts to curb extremist content online, boost digital literacy, and prevent radicalization, urging tech companies to accelerate prevention tools and remove material facilitating child exploitation.

A joint statement stressed that transnational criminal organizations are ruthless, and defeating them requires global cooperation and innovative approaches informed by counterterrorism and cybersecurity lessons.

The G7 interior and security ministers comprise Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, presenting a broad coalition against transnational crime.

Canada and other G7 members commit to aggressively disrupting transnational organized crime during a two-day Ottawa meeting.

Overall, global security officials emphasized enhanced international cooperation and information sharing to counter sophisticated, globally connected crime networks.