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All roads now lead to the G7 Summit hosted by Carney in the middle of June in Alberta, bringing together the world's seven largest economies, which dominate global trade and the international financial system.

The prime minister also needs to prepare for the G7 summit in June, which Canada is hosting in the province of Alberta.

Implicitly, he is saying, with the help of the rest of the G7, he will step up.

And by an incredible quirk of fate, it is he who will host the G7 summit in Alberta in June, just days before the expiry of President Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs pause.

Carney said the G7 summit hosted by Canada in June would be "very important" in deciding the future path of the global trade war, adding it would "put to the test" whether the group of the world's seven most advanced economies - which includes the US - was still the most "like-minded of like-minded countries".