The Diplomacy of Concert: Canada, the G-7 and the Halifax Summit
by John Kirton
Notes:
17. As Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau put it on June 28, 1976, in his concluding news
conference at Canada's first summit: "...the success of these conferences are...not
to be judged by the solution of individual economic problems or by the setting up of
new institutions or by the agreement on any particular resolution. The success will
be judged by whether we can influence the behaviour of people in our democracies
and perhaps even as important the behaviour of people on the outside who are
watching us, in a way in which they will have confidence that our type of economic
and political freedom permits us to solve problems."
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