A sign at the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting at the Rimrock Resort Hotel in Banff, Alta. Photo by Gavin Young/Postmedia files

When leaders of the Group of Seven countries sit down together in Kananaskis later this month, only two — France’s Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni — bring any recent experience with them to the table. And though Donald Trump is no stranger to the G7, he hasn’t attended one since 2019 (the 2020 summit was cancelled due to COVID). When he did, though, tensions with other world leaders ran high.

With so many new faces, a global trade war and whipsaw-tariffs as the backdrop to June’s meeting, you’d be excused for having low expectations. So why does right now matter? And what’s at stake if G7 leaders can’t find a way forw

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