TORONTO – Canada would never agree to allow Russia back into the G7 as long as Vladimir Putin is president, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Harper said Putin has the mindset of someone who believes the Cold War is still going on, and thinks that he can “change the ending somehow.”
The prime minister said Russia had eroded any basis for belonging to the influential group of wealthy countries.
“I don’t think Russia under Vladimir Putin belongs in the G7. Period,” said Harper, who departs for Ukraine on Friday and will attend a G7 meeting …read more
Source: iPolitics
