Could this year’s Charlevoix talkfest be the last of the G7 summits?

With Donald Trump involved, the utility of the multi-million-dollar annual G7 gathering could become a very open question.

The participation of U.S. president Donald Trump, left, could make Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Charlevoix G7 summit a complicated affair, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore and The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 23, 2018

OTTAWA—Conceived as a kind of fireside chat among the leaders of the biggest industrial democracies, the first high-level international “summit” was hosted by French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing at the Chateau de Rambouillet outside Paris in 1975. While the need to deal with the econ...

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