For all the importance of G7, Canada's fortunes truly lie with China and India

Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken initial steps aimed at shoring up relationships with China and India.STR/AFP/Getty Images Jeff Mahon is director of geopolitical and international business advisory at consulting firm StrategyCorp. He previously served as deputy director at Global Affairs Canada's China Division. Mark Carney's meteoric rise to power unearthed a neglected fact of politics in the 21st-century: international relations matter. The Trudeau Liberals did not understand this and governed according to the outdated maxim that "all politics is local." And that has come up against the violent flux of a complex world where…