"In Canada, we haven’t moved on a year after our conjoined summits — G8 in Huntsville, G20 in Toronto. The memories of violence in our streets remain raw. We’re still waiting for someone — the Prime Minister, the public safety minister, the head of the RCMP, the premier of Ontario or the chief of the Toronto police force — to take responsibility for what happened. ...
"It is too early to say that French President Nicolas Sarkozy got it right. He hasn’t hosted his country’s G20 summit yet. It is scheduled for November.
"But he did demonstrate that a country on high security alert — the Deauville summit came 25 days after the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden — can protect world leaders without trampling on the rights of its citizens or allowing its police to run amok."
Full article: Goar: Vigilance, not violence, at summits.
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