The G7 Summit Was Really about One Man

The G7 Summit Was Really about One Man

M ark Carney tried awfully hard to Trump-proof the G7 summit. Gone were the mentions of climate change, in were discussions of migration and energy. When the president began rambling about the need to bring Vladimir Putin back into the G7 fold, Carney hurried out the assembled media and pushed the conversation to trade. He opted against having a single joint communiqué, the kind Trump balked at, at the summit in Quebec seven years prior, instead…