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In Millions of people per country.
- Argentina 41
- Australia 20
- Brazil 195
- Canada 34
- China 1347
- France 65
- Germany 82
- India 1184
- Indonesia 243
- Italy 58
- Japan 127
- Mexico 113
- Russia 140
- Saudi Arabia 29
- South Africa 43
- Republic of Korea 50
- Turkey 73
- United Kingdom 61
- United States of America 308
The other 8
- England 61
- Germany 82
- Italy 58
- Canada 34
- Japan 127
- France 65
- Russia 140
- United States 308
Representative populations G20 about 70 percent of the orb. G8 about 9 percent.
Remarkably missing.
Nigeria
Iran
Iraq
Columbia
Egypt
Venezuela
Any Norse country.
“The G-7 was established in 1976 as an informal forum of seven major industrial economies. The G-7 conducts dialogue and seeks agreement on current economic issues on the basis of the comparable interests of those countries. The G-20 has a high degree of representativeness and legitimacy on account of its geographical composition, and its large share of global population. The G-20's broad representation of countries at different stages of development gives its consensus outcomes greater impact than those of the G-7.”
Well off the top of my cranium; let’s have a look at what we remember form the last G8 and G20 recommendations and sanctions.
Okay, so no one remembers what happened last time. Me neither. So here is one of the statements from their ending communiqué.
“We committed to take action to tackle the threat of climate change and work towards an ambitious outcome in Copenhagen, (nothing happened) within the objective, provisions and principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We discussed climate change financing options and recognised the need to increase significantly and urgently the
scale and predictability of finance to implement an
ambitious international agreement.” ( Again nothing has happened).
Let’s look at the action words. “Committed, discussed, recognized”. But they only committed to LOOK into something. They only discussed financing, but did not put any forth. And they only recognized the need for financing.
They needed a meeting for this? They could have called me.
The G8 last time:
1 “responsibility to adopt policies”
2 “Recognize that the process “
3 “exchange of experiences on structural policies,”
4 “develop our process of mutual assessment”
But nowhere does it state anything like. “Our policy is.” Or “The process we delivered,” or “we changed our policies”, or “the assessment showed”. What we have been given is a list of vacuous promises from politicians. Now for 4.4 billion people being represented at the G8? G20 meetings we are spending 1.1 Billion dollars. The political rational is, well that's only twenty five cents a person. Pretty cheap for any party. Unfortunately Canada is the third smallest by population on the list of the G20 and the smallest by a half than the next country in the G8 and we are footing the bill for the whole thing. Its not like in Hockey where you have a cap on spending and the others all chip in to the pot and its divvied up evenly between each team.
No no no. YOU have to bear the cost of what WE say. Why does this not bother politicians? It’s because that is how they operate for all legislation and programs. Here is the program, now we are going to tax you extra for it just because we can. After all, you will forget about it before the next election a cuz’in it’s all about the 24 hour news cycle. So for a mere $0.25 per person in the G20 what do we get?
50,000 school kids not bussed to school.
72 hours of impossible traffic in our largest economic hub.
10 days of nearly indigestible congestible phlegm spewed from our city, provincial, and federal leaders.
Innumerable headlines.
20,000 protesters.
700 businesses closed for three days.
10,000 political hacks and hangers on sleeping in our bed bug hotel beds.
20 Finance Ministers.
17 Tonnes of paper being printed, then quickly shredded, haven’t they heard of the IPad?
1 city held hostage.
33,999,965 Canadians bored to tears.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler , Having been again to Australia
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