Kananaskis, Alberta | When US President Donald Trump last came to Canada for a Group of Seven summit, the enduring image was of him seated with his arms folded defiantly as then-German chancellor Angela Merkel stared daggers at him.
If there is a shared mission at this year’s G7 summit, which begins on Monday (Tuesday AEST) in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, it is a desire to minimise any fireworks at a moment of combustible tensions.
![“We’re having a birthday party for [daughter] Rada in a few weeks and we’re going to get the truck to come, which is a real flex,” O’Neill says.](https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.7012%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_732%2C$y_641/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_600%2Cq_52%2Cf_auto/b5e4395344f07ccd1e3a348af02af77c8eeb8d1b)
