An uneventful G7, from a security standpoint

All in all, it was a success story from the viewpoint of those charged with preventing bad things from happening.

European Council President Donald Tusk, British Prime Minister Theresa May, German chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanue Macron, Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, pictured Friday, June 8 at the G7. Photograph courtesy of Canada G7 Twitter

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

June 18, 2018

OTTAWA—Well, the G7 in La Malbaie, Que., is over and some would say, ‘Thank God!’ It would be hard to imagine a weirder summit than the one Canada just hosted. The group of seven powerful economic and political nations usually gathers to talk shop, take some selfies, and sign a final communi...

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