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Last week was one of the busiest in Toronto, Canada where leaders from eight richest and 20 richest nations of the world are meeting to discuss various issues pertaining to global development.

Since the Halifax Summit communiqué in 1995, relations between the G7, as it then was, and civil society have undergone tremendous shifts. The forthcoming summit in Muskoka, Canada will doubtless not be the last the world sees of the G8 (the “leaders of the major industrialised nations” namely, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Russia, United States, Canada & United Kingdom) but it marks another historic turning point in the evolution of global leadership.