EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Canada’s message to the United States at this G7 summit goes something like this: we may not go to the ends of the Earth to get our old trading relationship back, but we’ll gladly cross the ocean to plead our case.

Sure, there was lots on the summit agenda Tuesday. A hopeful morning meeting on Ukraine. An afternoon roundtable on the state of the Middle East. A bunch of bilateral discussions in the breaks and on the sidelines.