Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien says that the dignitaries attending the next G7 leaders summit in Alberta should avoid involving the “crazy” of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Chretien, speaking on Thursday at a conference in Calgary, said that leaders cannot predict what Trump could do. He said that the president can be a thug and that it is better if the rest of the G7 leaders ignore any outburst.
“If you have decided to do a program to be in the news, it will do something crazy,” he said.
“Do you do it and keep talking normally.”
Chretien said the leaders must follow the example established by Prime Minister Mark Carney when Trump visited at the White House last month.
“When Trump spoke of Canada to be part of the United States, [Carney] I just said that “Canada is not on sale, the White House is not on sale, Buckingham Palace is not on sale,” Chretien said.
“Trump said: ‘Never say,’ [but Carney] I didn’t even answer. He has just moved forward with the discussion. It is the way to handle that. “
Carney is organizing Trump and world leaders in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy and the European Union for the three -day summit that begins on Sunday in Kananaskis, located in the rock mountains southwest of Calgary.
Chretien, talking along with his former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance John Manley, also said he supported Carney’s decision to invite India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the summit.
Carney has been criticized for the invitation, even for a member of his own Liberal Caucus, due to the ongoing tensions between Canada and India by foreign interference and the murder of 2023 of the Sij Hardeep Singh Nijjar separatism activist in BC, the RCMP has said that it has evidence that links the members of the Indian government with the death of Singh.
“It’s always good to speak,” Chretien said about Modi’s invitation. “They can speak and you will see that there are other problems.
“You have to navigate. You can’t always go to your upper horse for every small problem you face.”
Chretien was one of the two Canadian prime ministers who spoke at the conference, organized by the School of Public Policies of the University of Calgary and the G7 Research Group.
The University says that the conference is aimed at gathering experts and officials to explain the key problems faced by G7 leaders who face the summit.
Former Prime Minister Joe Clark, born in High River, Alta., Closed the conference by urging greater ties with the United Kingdom and France. He also offered similar advice so as not to entertain any public theater in which Trump can participate during the summit.
“I don’t think there is any point to throw our hands or criticize [Trump]”Clark said.
“I think it would be advisable to have more private treatment and less businesses until the inclinations of the president of the United States change.”
Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith also spoke at the conference.
She said that the possibility of an economic and security agreement between Canada and the United States signed in the G7 would be an extraordinary step.
He urged Canada to continue finding new commercial partners, even if the relationship between the two countries begins to soften.
“Let’s not remove the foot of the gas,” said Smith.
David Angel, current foreign and defense policy advisor, said in a separate panel that world leaders are “at a time of enormous flow worldwide, when tensions between G7 members are especially pronounced.”
Carney announced on Monday to plan for Canada to meet the NATO expenses guide at the beginning of next year.
Angels, a former Canadian ambassador to NATO, said the country made an error by allowing the defense industry to “change to a kind of peace -stand assumption.”
He said that the G7 can be exceptionally consistent and no other process allows a discussion about the core of “evil problems” for defense problems.
