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QUEBEC — The expression “a bull in a china shop” comes to mind.

Put another way, despite the buffer of other world leaders and a complex international agenda, U.S. President Donald Trump still managed to make the weekend’s G7 summit meeting in Charlevoix all about him.

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He managed that through rants before, during and after the two-day event, a nonchalant attitude when he was there as reflected in his chronic tardiness and an obvious lack of interest in anything others were talking about.

Trump arrived in a swirl of controversy and bluster, stayed less than 24 hours on Canadian soil, and left in the same condition and holding the same anti-G7 views.

And as for longer-term collateral damage, Canada-U.S. relations have reached a new low.

History will show Trump torpedoed and spoiled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s summit — billed as a show of unity on economic trade, gender equality, purging plastics from the oceans and rescuing females living in crisis situations.