Gathering the leaders of seven of the world’s largest economies in person would be “much more effective” than the virtual alternative, Justin Trudeau said Wednesday — so long as the United States has a plan to deal with the potential COVID-19 risk.
The notion of G7 leaders attending a physical meeting somewhere between the White House and Camp David, even in the midst of a global pandemic that continues to batter the national capital, began last week as another outlandish sentiment from Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.
But an in-person meeting in late June now seems a real possibility — one the prime minister said he’s prepared to entertain, as long as the Trump administration takes the necessary steps to ensure public health concerns are