It wasn't until the jet was in the air that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to the U.K. for the G7 summit — his first foreign trip since the onset of the pandemic — felt truly weird. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks with Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Ralph Goodale through an honour guard as he arrives at the airport in Newquay, United Kingdom for the G7 Summit Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)On the one hand, Prime Minister Trudeau's arrival in Britain today for the G7 summit (he'll attend the NATO summit next week) offered a reassuring sign that things are headed back to normal. So we need to unite together with our allies, not only in the G7, but G7 is a good starting point." It's no coincidence that Xi made his statement on the eve of the G7 summit, said Gordon Houlden, director emeritus of the China Institute at the University of Alberta.

Source: CBC News June 10, 2021 19:13 UTC