The last time world leaders gathered in Kananaskis, a bear tried to make its way into the 2002 meeting of the world's top eight economies and met an untimely end.
This time, members of the G7 are developing strategies to handle a different formidable figure: President Donald Trump.
It will be Trump's first time setting foot on Canadian soil since saying Canada was 'meant to be' the 51st U.S. state and slapping 25 percent tariffs on Canada's steel.
U.S. statehood polls abysmally here, and the issue sets up a gathering that is anything but typical.
'He's not acting like an ally right now when he's trying to disrupt our economy and threatening to take us over. Even if he says it's a joke, it's not a joke. You don't treat another sovereign country like that,' Robert Mallach, a law professor at the University of Calgary told the Daily Mail.
