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Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien said that dignitaries assistant to the next G7 leaders in Alberta should avoid hiring the “madman” of US President Donald Trump.
Christian, speaking Thursday at a conference in Calgary, said the leaders could not predict what Trump could do. He said that the president can be a tyrant and it would be preferable for other G7 leaders to ignore the explosions.
“If he decided to make a program in the news, he will do something crazy,” he said.
“Let him do it and continue to speak normally.”
Christian said that leaders should follow the example given by Prime Minister Mark Carney when he visited Trump in the White House last month.
“When Trump talked about Canada to be part of the United States, [Carney] I just said that “Canada is not for sale, the White House is not for sale, the Buckingham Palace is not for sale,” said Christian.
“Trump said:” Never say ” [but Carney] did not even answer. He has just continued the discussion. This is the way to manage this. “”
Carney welcomes Trump and the world leaders of France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy and the European Union for the three-day summit from Sunday in Kananaskis, located in the Rockies southwest of Calgary.
Christian, speaking alongside his former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, John Manley, also said that he had supported Carney’s decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the top.
Carney was criticized for the invitation, in particular by a member of his own liberal caucus, due to the current tensions between Canada and India on foreign interference and the 2023 murder of the Sikh Hardh Hardh Nijjar separatist activist in BC, the RCMP said that it had proofs connecting the members of the Indian government to the death of Singh.
“It’s always good to speak,” said Christian about the Modi invitation. “They will be able to speak and they will see that there are other problems.
“You have to navigate. You cannot always go to your horse for each little problem you are facing.”
Christian was one of the two former Canadian Prime Ministers who were expressed during the conference, organized by the School of Public Policy from the University of Calgary and the G7 Research Group.
The University claims that the conference is supposed to bring together experts and civil servants to explain the main problems that G7 leaders face at the head of the summit.
Former Prime Minister Joe Clark, born in High River, Alberta, closed the conference by urging greater ties to the United Kingdom and France. He also offered similar advice not to entertain a public theater that Trump could engage during the summit.
“I don’t think there is a moment to throw our hands or criticize [Trump]”Said Clark.
“I think it would be wise to have more private transactions and fewer public transactions until the American president’s trends are changing.”
Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith also spoke during the conference.
She said the possibility of an economic and security agreement between Canada and the United States signed in the G7 would be an extraordinary step.
It urged Canada to continue to find new business partners, even if the relationship between the two countries begins to be smooth.
“Don’t remove the gas foot,” said Smith.
David Angell, Carney’s foreign and current political advisor, said on a separate panel that world leaders met “at a time of huge flows worldwide, when tensions among G7 members are particularly pronounced”.
Carney announced on Monday that it planned that Canada respects NATO spending directives early next year.
Angell, a former Canadian NATO ambassador, said that the country had made a mistake by allowing the defense industry to “move on to a kind of rescue hypothesis in peacetime”.
He said that the G7 can be exceptionally consecutive and that no other process makes it possible to discuss “nasty problems” at the heart of defense issues.
