The G7 is dead – time to move on to the G6

Open this photo in gallery: G7 countries accounted for roughly 70 per cent of world GDP in 1976, but now add up to just 45 per cent.Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press The summit of the Group of Seven is over, but really it was over long before its official ending. It was over before Donald Trump walked out part way through. If you want to know the truth, it was over before it began. It was over because the Group of Seven is over, at least in the sense in which it was originally envisaged: as a club of like-minded democracies,…