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Revision as of 17:40, 9 July 2008
Template:Future The 36th G8 summit is to be held in Canada in 2010. The meeting will take place in Huntsville, Ontario, at the Deerhurst Resort. It will be the fifth G8 Summit hosted by Canada since 1976.[1] The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by Canada include: Montebello, Quebec (1981); Toronto, Ontario (1988); Halifax, Nova Scotia (1995); and Kananaskis, Alberta (2002).
The G8 is an unofficial forum which brings together the heads of the leading industrialized democracies: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States, Canada (since 1976), Russia (since 1998),[2] and the EU Commission (since 1981).[3]
Composition of summit leaders
Permanent
Invited (partial participation)
G8+5
The G8 plus the five largest emerging economies has come to be known as G8+5.
Other leaders
Other world leaders have been invited to previous G8 summit meetings; and this practice is expected to continue.
Heads of international organizations
Leaders of the major international organizations have also been invited to attend in the past; and this practice is expected to continue:
African Union
Commonwealth of Independent States
European Union
International Atomic Energy Agency- File:IEA logo.gif International Energy Agency
United Nations
UNESCO- File:World Bank Logo.png World Bank
World Health Organization- File:Wto logo.png World Trade Organization
Schedule and Agenda
A tentative agenda for the 36th G8 summit will include some issues which remain unresolved from previous summits.
Issues
Citizens' responses and authorities' counter-responses
Protesters and demonstrations
Protest groups and other activists are expected to make a showing at the summit. Forward planning for this specific G8 summits began in advance of the 2008 Hokkaido summit. Activist organizations anticipate that early planning can result in greater networking effectiveness for G8 summits.[4]
Not all demonstrations are expected to focused in opposition to some issue. At the 2005 Scotland summit, for the first time the tens of thousands of people protesting outside were actually supporting the summit's agenda of African aid;[2] and some activists traveled to Hokkaido in 2008 for the same purpose.[5]
Citizen journalism
Citizens' groups are expected to organize citizen journalism centers to provide independent media coverage of the G8 summit and the expected protests. In a sense, this article will evolve as the work product of something like citizen journalism, growing through serial draft texts as part of "the first rough draft of history."[6]
Accomplishments
The G8 summit is an international event which is observed and reported by news media, but the G8's continuing relevance after more than 30 years is somewhat unclear.[7] The G8 summit brings leaders together not so they can dream up quick fixes, but to talk and think about them together.[8]
In addition, Prime Minister Harper anticipates that "the 2010 G8 Summit will provide short and long-term economic benefits for the region and the province, and it will be an exceptional opportunity for Canada to advance its values and interests on the world stage."[1]
Budget
The Canadian government has yet to announce how much the nation expects to invest in hosting the G-8 summit in 2010.
References
- ^ a b "Prime Minister announces Canada to host 2010 G8 Summit in Huntsville," June 19, 2008. Cite error: The named reference "announce1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Globe and Mail (Toronto). July 5, 2008. Cite error: The named reference "saunders1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
- ^ "Update: G8...Forward plan with others for future G8 summits," BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development). 2008.
- ^ "We're not G8 protesters, says Nighy," Star (Sheffield). July 8, 2008.
- ^ Braiker, Brian. "History's New First Draft," Newsweek (New York). July 8, 2008; Keyes, Ralph. The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and when, p. 107.
- ^ Lee, Don. "On eve of summit, G-8's relevance is unclear," Los Angeles Times. July 6, 2008.
- ^ Feldman, Adam. "What's Wrong With The G-8," Forbes (New York). July 7, 2008.
See also
External links
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