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Justin Trudeau wants redemption after India trip? G-7 meet is his chance

As host, Trudeau is in the spotlight to somehow salvage a summit pitting irate Europeans against Trump with Japan's Shinzo Abe falling in the middle

Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau
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It's set to be the most acrimonious world summit in years, with President Donald Trump facing off against six other leaders in need of a standard-bearer. If Justin Trudeau is looking for a chance at redemption, this is it. 

With the world on the brink of a trade war, the stakes are high for when the Group of Seven meet in Canada with the symbol of postwar collaboration under threat by an aggressive strain of American unilateralism that's ripped up international agreements and undermined multilateral institutions.

Enter Trudeau, the photogenic prime minister whose brand of "progressive" trade has fallen flat amid foreign

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