How can humanity get back on a track to peaceful and sustainable development? Question looms large as G7 leaders prepare for crucial summit in U.K.

As economic leaders in a world in turmoil, the G7 have a special responsibility to espouse an agenda that benefits all humanity, and Canada, when it attends the G7 Summit, should be a leader in promoting this new ethic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured March 5, 2021, on the Hill. How can humanity get back on a track to peaceful and sustainable development? That question looms large as the G7 leaders prepare for a crucial summit June 11-13 in the U.K. The stated goal of these economically powerful nations is to help the world build back better from the pandemic and create a greener, more prosperous future.

EDMONTON—By now, the list of world crises is engraved on the minds of thinking people everywhere: global warming, skyrocketing inequalities, endless regional wars, famines, nuclear weapons standoff and, of course, the ravages caused by the COVID-19 pandemi...

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