Harper’s G8 and G20 summits too costly
More than $1-billion was spent on the G8 and G20 meetings. Canada's largest city was turned into a ghost town. Marauding thugs destroyed parts of the commercial sector of Toronto. Was it all worth it? Nope.
The G7, later the G8 meetings were born in the wake of the 1970s OPEC oil embargo and the economic crisis that followed. The most powerful economic and military powers in the world were already facing the challenge of diminishing power from the oil-rich countries.
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