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Canada expects ‘strong’ G7 statement against paying hostage ransoms

May 26, 2016

CBC News | May. 26, 2016

John Kir­ton, direc­tor of the G7 research group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, says get­ting the ran­som state­ment into the final com­mu­niqué is a suc­cess for Cana­da. But he says the real test will come with how those words will be put into action. Read more.